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 Macedonia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mark Hollis to the techno 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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
OOIOO,
Depeche Mode,
Kerri Chandler,
Livin' Joy,
Fat Boys,
The Techniques,
China Crisis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The United States of America,
Joyce Sims,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sun Ra,
Porter Ricks,
Section 25,
Negative Approach,
8 Eyed Spy,
Groovy Waters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fatback Band,
Lungfish,
Roxy Music,
T.S.O.L.,
the Human League,
Ronan,
Dead Boys,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
X-102,
The Smiths,
LL Cool J,
L. Decosne,
The Red Krayola,
Monolake,
Japan,
Pet Shop Boys,
Minor Threat,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Robert Wyatt,
Brand Nubian,
Dave Gahan,
X-101,
The Leaves,
Masters at Work,
a-ha,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Toni Rubio,
Banda Bassotti,
Guru Guru,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nirvana,
Letta Mbulu,
Youth Brigade,
Quadrant,
Ornette Coleman,
Interpol,
Bob Dylan,
The Names,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.