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 Nauru and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Zero Boys to the crunk 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Flag record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Rekid,
Trumans Water,
Absolute Body Control,
Rites of Spring,
Max Romeo,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Knickerbockers,
Electric Prunes,
The Trojans,
Public Image Ltd.,
Harry Pussy,
The Standells,
Lalann,
Mantronix,
Ronnie Foster,
Ornette Coleman,
Alison Limerick,
Tomorrow,
Isaac Hayes,
Joensuu 1685,
Reuben Wilson,
The Slackers,
The Human League,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dave Gahan,
MDC,
Gastr Del Sol,
Amazonics,
The Blues Magoos,
Blake Baxter,
Livin' Joy,
Deepchord,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
LL Cool J,
Duran Duran,
The Stooges,
Terrestrial Tones,
Donny Hathaway,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Excepter,
Shoche,
Cluster,
Black Pus,
Brothers Johnson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Selecter,
World's Most,
Hot Snakes,
The Sonics,
Gang Starr,
PIL,
Sonny Sharrock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
U.S. Maple,
Quadrant,
Ten City,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Golliwogs,
The Doors,
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.