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 Solomon Islands and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 Copenhagen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ohio Players to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Soulsonic Force,
Marshall Jefferson,
B.T. Express,
Nick Fraelich,
The Remains,
Bill Near,
John Holt,
The Selecter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minor Threat,
Andrew Hill,
Eurythmics,
Model 500,
David Bowie,
Donald Byrd,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Reagan Youth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bauhaus,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Darondo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Graham Central Station,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Roxette,
Kenny Larkin,
The Stooges,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Mojo Men,
The Fugs,
Lakeside,
Q and Not U,
Jacob Miller,
Sun City Girls,
Supertramp,
Alice Coltrane,
Ossler,
Erasure,
The United States of America,
Monks,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Franke,
Amon Düül II,
The Smoke,
The Alarm Clocks,
Talk Talk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
These Immortal Souls,
Roger Hodgson,
Pylon,
Section 25,
Sonic Youth,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Half Japanese,
Unrelated Segments,
Jerry's Kids,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.