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 Guinea and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Moss Icon to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Raincoats,
Jacques Brel,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Donald Byrd,
The Litter,
Al Stewart,
Quadrant,
James White and The Blacks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Terry Callier,
DJ Sneak,
The Slackers,
Q and Not U,
Basic Channel,
Negative Approach,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ohio Players,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Slave,
Swans,
Nico,
Fluxion,
Essential Logic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Whodini,
June of 44,
Neil Young,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Massinfluence,
Average White Band,
Quando Quango,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Grass Roots,
Funky Four + One,
The Gladiators,
Soft Cell,
Trumans Water,
Vladislav Delay,
The Dead C,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brass Construction,
The Gap Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Kenny Larkin,
Pole,
The Red Krayola,
The Music Machine,
Frankie Knuckles,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neu!,
Derrick May,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thee Headcoats,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fat Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
Flipper,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Country Teasers,
Shoche,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.