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 Chad and from Salvador.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the linndrum 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 John Holt to the rap 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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba 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 rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Jawbox,
Cluster,
Sight & Sound,
John Coltrane,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Arcadia,
The Searchers,
Alison Limerick,
Harmonia,
Smog,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Yazoo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Radiohead,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scientists,
Bobby Byrd,
Man Parrish,
Model 500,
Ossler,
Essential Logic,
Shuggie Otis,
Crime,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Electric Prunes,
The Gap Band,
Whodini,
Sandy B,
Pole,
Sly & The Family Stone,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Theoretical Girls,
Toni Rubio,
X-Ray Spex,
Royal Trux,
The Techniques,
Funkadelic,
Hot Snakes,
Skriet,
Amon Düül II,
Wire,
Second Layer,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jeff Lynne,
Skaos,
Basic Channel,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Animal Collective,
Ten City,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pantytec,
David Axelrod,
The Slits,
Make Up,
The Monks,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rotary Connection,
Urselle,
Eden Ahbez,
Andrew Hill,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Toasters,
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.