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 Gabon and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Morten Harket to the grunge 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Silicon Teens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Andrew Hill,
ABBA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thompson Twins,
Desert Stars,
The United States of America,
Marine Girls,
Jacob Miller,
Freddie Wadling,
Los Fastidios,
La Düsseldorf,
Dave Gahan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bill Wells,
Procol Harum,
Morten Harket,
Visage,
Sister Nancy,
Eli Mardock,
The Associates,
Brass Construction,
New York Dolls,
The Durutti Column,
cv313,
Lower 48,
Bluetip,
Judy Mowatt,
AZ,
Ohio Players,
Inner City,
Scientists,
The Blackbyrds,
Warren Ellis,
Jeff Mills,
Kayak,
The Index,
48th St. Collective,
FM Einheit,
Public Image Ltd.,
Drive Like Jehu,
Wings,
Buzzcocks,
Television Personalities,
Whodini,
Black Bananas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cheater Slicks,
Soft Machine,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ossler,
David Axelrod,
Iggy Pop,
Toni Rubio,
the Association,
Don Cherry,
Franke,
Jeru the Damaja,
Chrome,
Hardrive,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.