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 China and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All Lyres 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 electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
Jeff Lynne,
JFA,
Faraquet,
The Associates,
The Skatalites,
Ultra Naté,
Hoover,
Cal Tjader,
Skriet,
Charles Mingus,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Maleditus Sound,
LL Cool J,
Ash Ra Tempel,
New York Dolls,
Reagan Youth,
Outsiders,
Roxy Music,
Kayak,
Donny Hathaway,
Connie Case,
Mo-Dettes,
Second Layer,
Soulsonic Force,
Gong,
Curtis Mayfield,
Roger Hodgson,
Audionom,
The Moody Blues,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dual Sessions,
The Cowsills,
Malaria!,
Ponytail,
Q65,
Half Japanese,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dead Boys,
Josef K,
Stereo Dub,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Sonics,
Lakeside,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Minnie Riperton,
Pulsallama,
Anakelly,
Wire,
Johnny Clarke,
Sex Pistols,
Jacques Brel,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Trojans,
Quantec,
Little Man,
Heaven 17,
U.S. Maple,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Theoretical Girls,
Erykah Badu,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.