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 Philippines and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 the Germs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Steve Hackett. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sixth Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Japan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cheater Slicks,
Groovy Waters,
The Fall,
Technova,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Tommy Roe,
Fad Gadget,
Zero Boys,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Normal,
Rapeman,
Gong,
Wasted Youth,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Deadbeat,
The Fortunes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
World's Most,
Charles Mingus,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Alton Ellis,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Searchers,
Warsaw,
Desert Stars,
Avey Tare,
The Seeds,
Jimmy McGriff,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Move,
the Human League,
Underground Resistance,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Junior Murvin,
Rod Modell,
Echospace,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eurythmics,
E-Dancer,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grey Daturas,
Cybotron,
The Selecter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Music Machine,
the Association,
Blake Baxter,
Grandmaster Flash,
June Days,
Mad Mike,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Qualms,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-101,
Brass Construction,
Dennis Brown,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.