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 Yemen and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Agent Orange to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
The Raincoats,
Roxy Music,
Eric B and Rakim,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Brick,
Jacob Miller,
Fear,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Kinks,
The Associates,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric Dolphy,
H. Thieme,
Wally Richardson,
This Heat,
Fad Gadget,
Skriet,
U.S. Maple,
The Gladiators,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mars,
Saccharine Trust,
Los Fastidios,
Underground Resistance,
Moby Grape,
Anakelly,
Pulsallama,
Subhumans,
Ice-T,
Guru Guru,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Boz Scaggs,
Minny Pops,
The Red Krayola,
The Neon Judgement,
The Mummies,
Bang On A Can,
Deakin,
Black Bananas,
Cameo,
Michelle Simonal,
Marmalade,
Maurizio,
Rekid,
New York Dolls,
Eric Copeland,
Electric Prunes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Tremeloes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Audionom,
The Toasters,
Organ,
Black Sheep,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Metal Thangz,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.