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 Andorra and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Salvador.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Suburban Knight to the electroclash 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kool Moe Dee,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glenn Branca,
This Heat,
The Fuzztones,
Joe Finger,
Spoonie Gee,
La Düsseldorf,
LL Cool J,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gregory Isaacs,
Suburban Knight,
X-101,
Barclay James Harvest,
Funkadelic,
Eli Mardock,
Stetsasonic,
10cc,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Depeche Mode,
Television Personalities,
Ronan,
Neil Young,
Donny Hathaway,
Theoretical Girls,
Mad Mike,
Mr. Review,
Fatback Band,
The Star Department,
The Birthday Party,
Minutemen,
Aaron Thompson,
Amon Düül II,
Yazoo,
Rapeman,
Pulsallama,
ABC,
Zapp,
Warsaw,
Buzzcocks,
Joensuu 1685,
D'Angelo,
Toni Rubio,
Quadrant,
Inner City,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Faust,
Rakim,
Minnie Riperton,
Todd Rundgren,
In Retrospect,
Juan Atkins,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lalo Schifrin,
Brass Construction,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.