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 Nicaragua and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rotary Connection to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
The Barracudas,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bill Wells,
Half Japanese,
The Leaves,
cv313,
Lower 48,
Y Pants,
Alison Limerick,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Lalann,
Q and Not U,
The Sonics,
Camouflage,
Bobby Byrd,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Boz Scaggs,
Absolute Body Control,
Quantec,
The Smiths,
The Evens,
Fat Boys,
Delon & Dalcan,
Popol Vuh,
Khruangbin,
Junior Murvin,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
a-ha,
Dead Boys,
The Saints,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Names,
Fluxion,
The Mojo Men,
Rakim,
Angry Samoans,
Basic Channel,
Niagra,
Shuggie Otis,
H. Thieme,
Bobby Sherman,
Fugazi,
Icehouse,
Dual Sessions,
Thee Headcoats,
The Seeds,
The Raincoats,
New Age Steppers,
David McCallum,
Visage,
Stereo Dub,
Bauhaus,
Cluster,
Nas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.