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 Malta and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Delta 5 to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
Simply Red,
Procol Harum,
Bobby Womack,
Derrick May,
Cluster,
Tommy Roe,
Heaven 17,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
X-102,
Unrelated Segments,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
PIL,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Masters at Work,
Schoolly D,
Neil Young,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mark Hollis,
Gerry Rafferty,
Agent Orange,
Sister Nancy,
The United States of America,
Massinfluence,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Second Layer,
Rotary Connection,
Royal Trux,
Radiohead,
Fatback Band,
The Zeros,
Avey Tare,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Junior Murvin,
Al Stewart,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Tomorrow,
Spandau Ballet,
Wings,
June Days,
Jeru the Damaja,
Joey Negro,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ultravox,
Alice Coltrane,
H. Thieme,
Au Pairs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Todd Terry,
Trumans Water,
Ossler,
The Moleskins,
Desert Stars,
June of 44,
Rapeman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dennis Brown,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.