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 Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Skaos 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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '90s.
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 Bush Tetras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Schoolly D,
Rotary Connection,
FM Einheit,
Clear Light,
Sparks,
The New Christs,
The Seeds,
Alison Limerick,
Visage,
K-Klass,
Sugar Minott,
Yellowson,
Whodini,
One Last Wish,
Symarip,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eve St. Jones,
Soulsonic Force,
Excepter,
Sam Rivers,
Scan 7,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Sheep,
kango's stein massive,
Bill Near,
The Busters,
Eric B and Rakim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Suburban Knight,
Mantronix,
Banda Bassotti,
Rekid,
John Lydon,
Basic Channel,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Robert Wyatt,
Chris & Cosey,
Mission of Burma,
Pulsallama,
Susan Cadogan,
June Days,
Juan Atkins,
Nick Fraelich,
Gabor Szabo,
Bang On A Can,
Television Personalities,
Radiohead,
Pagans,
Essential Logic,
Freddie Wadling,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Altered Images,
Max Romeo,
Soft Machine,
Scion,
The Monks,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.