Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Gabon and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing the Fania All-Stars to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Robert Wyatt,
Archie Shepp,
Ludus,
The Moleskins,
Joey Negro,
ABC,
Matthew Bourne,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Red Krayola,
the Normal,
Crash Course in Science,
John Coltrane,
Heaven 17,
Index,
Cluster,
Angry Samoans,
Yaz,
Eric Dolphy,
The Monks,
Avey Tare,
Lebanon Hanover,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marine Girls,
Basic Channel,
Peter & Gordon,
Duran Duran,
JFA,
Easy Going,
Tim Buckley,
Yazoo,
Kenny Larkin,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nik Kershaw,
CMW,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
10cc,
Marvin Gaye,
X-101,
Erasure,
Goldenarms,
EPMD,
Blancmange,
E-Dancer,
Delta 5,
A Certain Ratio,
Marmalade,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Negative Approach,
F. McDonald,
Jawbox,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Bananas,
Thee Headcoats,
The New Christs,
The Real Kids,
Hardrive,
DJ Style,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.