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 Bhutan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ken Boothe to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Alton Ellis,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Adolescents,
Nick Fraelich,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
ABC,
Thee Headcoats,
Pere Ubu,
Babytalk,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Seeds,
Rufus Thomas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Skatalites,
Gang Starr,
Saccharine Trust,
The Misunderstood,
A Certain Ratio,
The Golliwogs,
Amazonics,
Darondo,
Charles Mingus,
Desert Stars,
Soft Machine,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Busters,
Patti Smith,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wings,
The Blues Magoos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Kinks,
Derrick May,
The Barracudas,
Brothers Johnson,
The Trojans,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Bar-Kays,
EPMD,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Real Kids,
Lyres,
The Neon Judgement,
Pagans,
CMW,
The Motions,
Chris Corsano,
Max Romeo,
Deepchord,
Excepter,
Camberwell Now,
Animal Collective,
Ludus,
The Blackbyrds,
Magazine,
Boogie Down Productions,
Delta 5,
Angry Samoans,
Scratch Acid,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.