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 Denmark and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 linndrum 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 Yusef Lateef to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Dark Day,
Liliput,
The Flesh Eaters,
Agitation Free,
Aaron Thompson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Robert Hood,
The Walker Brothers,
Moss Icon,
Jimmy McGriff,
World's Most,
Anthony Braxton,
Prince Buster,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Section 25,
Don Cherry,
Cheater Slicks,
Boz Scaggs,
The Remains,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Wire,
Jawbox,
Ken Boothe,
Livin' Joy,
Eli Mardock,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fat Boys,
Dawn Penn,
Neu!,
Qualms,
Donald Byrd,
The Raincoats,
Amazonics,
David Axelrod,
The Human League,
EPMD,
The Monochrome Set,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dave Gahan,
Terry Callier,
Letta Mbulu,
The United States of America,
Newcleus,
Ultimate Spinach,
Excepter,
Yazoo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lungfish,
Peter & Gordon,
Blake Baxter,
The Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare,
Cameo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Swell Maps,
Nico,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Slackers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.