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 Vietnam and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Grass Roots to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Easy Going,
This Heat,
Todd Terry,
Hardrive,
Pylon,
Mars,
Urselle,
Soul II Soul,
the Sonics,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cybotron,
Thompson Twins,
The Neon Judgement,
Nik Kershaw,
The Seeds,
The Count Five,
The Invisible,
James White and The Blacks,
Danielle Patucci,
World's Most,
Kas Product,
Matthew Bourne,
Section 25,
The Doors,
the Germs,
Mary Jane Girls,
Roy Ayers,
Black Moon,
D'Angelo,
The Human League,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Electric Prunes,
Joey Negro,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amazonics,
EPMD,
Gang Green,
Warsaw,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
E-Dancer,
Man Parrish,
Joe Finger,
Das Ding,
Eric Copeland,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Cale,
Grey Daturas,
Arthur Verocai,
Alton Ellis,
The Modern Lovers,
Duran Duran,
Junior Murvin,
Liliput,
X-Ray Spex,
Moss Icon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Black Sheep,
Shuggie Otis,
Technova,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.