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 Georgia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 Bremen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Panda Bear,
Girls At Our Best!,
Traffic Nightmare,
Little Man,
KRS-One,
Tears for Fears,
John Coltrane,
The Gap Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Erykah Badu,
Chris Corsano,
The Smiths,
Pagans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Josef K,
Black Pus,
Slave,
D'Angelo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Remains,
The Divine Comedy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Fire Engines,
The Trojans,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ultra Naté,
Zapp,
Lightning Bolt,
Kerrie Biddell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bluetip,
Yusef Lateef,
The Skatalites,
Magazine,
Gabor Szabo,
The Wake,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Young Marble Giants,
Khruangbin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The American Breed,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Depeche Mode,
The Fortunes,
Brothers Johnson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Neon Judgement,
Swans,
Average White Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Shoche,
Patti Smith,
New Age Steppers,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.