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 Italy and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 808 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 Roxette to the disco 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 Litter. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Cluster,
The Human League,
Kerrie Biddell,
Clear Light,
The Star Department,
Bobby Sherman,
Kas Product,
Deakin,
Tears for Fears,
Porter Ricks,
Ken Boothe,
Symarip,
Suicide,
The Five Americans,
Television Personalities,
Joensuu 1685,
Amon Düül II,
Animal Collective,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Basic Channel,
Half Japanese,
Sällskapet,
Desert Stars,
Warren Ellis,
Bad Manners,
Lee Hazlewood,
Derrick Morgan,
Zapp,
Brand Nubian,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bush Tetras,
Don Cherry,
Godley & Creme,
New Age Steppers,
Sparks,
Negative Approach,
Wings,
Iggy Pop,
LL Cool J,
The Sound,
Pulsallama,
the Bar-Kays,
Slave,
Japan,
Yazoo,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Fall,
Boogie Down Productions,
John Foxx,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DNA,
Sam Rivers,
Fat Boys,
The Golliwogs,
Little Man,
Inner City,
Fugazi,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Walker Brothers,
Susan Cadogan,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Deadbeat,
Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor.
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.