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 Taiwan and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Connie Case to the funk 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
Glenn Branca,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Yellowson,
Average White Band,
The Birthday Party,
The Busters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Junior Murvin,
Amon Düül,
Surgeon,
Henry Cow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Smog,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rakim,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
T.S.O.L.,
Rhythm & Sound,
DJ Sneak,
Scion,
Japan,
Pet Shop Boys,
Can,
Lebanon Hanover,
Girls At Our Best!,
Judy Mowatt,
David McCallum,
The Last Poets,
The J.B.'s,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Maurizio,
Pierre Henry,
Jacques Brel,
The Saints,
Scan 7,
D'Angelo,
Rotary Connection,
Cameo,
Isaac Hayes,
Shuggie Otis,
Basic Channel,
Flipper,
The Sonics,
Wings,
Quantec,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ultravox,
Absolute Body Control,
Spandau Ballet,
Nirvana,
The Monks,
Deakin,
Circle Jerks,
The Five Americans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fortunes,
The Smoke,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
David Axelrod,
Monks, Monks, Monks, Monks.
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.