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 Croatia and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lucky Dragons to the jazz 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ken Boothe,
Minny Pops,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bauhaus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Black Dice,
The Offenders,
Q65,
Crooked Eye,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Glambeats Corp.,
Masters at Work,
Althea and Donna,
Unrelated Segments,
Radiohead,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Animal Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Groovy Waters,
Ronnie Foster,
Quantec,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Susan Cadogan,
Anthony Braxton,
Wolf Eyes,
Glenn Branca,
The Tremeloes,
Pole,
Anakelly,
Echospace,
Lungfish,
Lou Reed,
The Victims,
Donald Byrd,
Jerry's Kids,
Von Mondo,
Adolescents,
Buzzcocks,
Robert Görl,
Scientists,
Inner City,
Con Funk Shun,
The Moleskins,
Tommy Roe,
The Fuzztones,
Godley & Creme,
Trumans Water,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Negative Approach,
Pere Ubu,
Goldenarms,
Half Japanese,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Minnie Riperton,
Harpers Bizarre,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crime,
Sixth Finger,
EPMD,
The Golliwogs,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.