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 Glasgow.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pierre Henry to the grime 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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Todd Rundgren,
Nas,
Sexual Harrassment,
Dual Sessions,
Mission of Burma,
Silicon Teens,
Echospace,
Sex Pistols,
Thee Headcoats,
Ronnie Foster,
Easy Going,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Interpol,
Letta Mbulu,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Black Dice,
DJ Sneak,
Lower 48,
The Beau Brummels,
Hashim,
Excepter,
Tomorrow,
Boz Scaggs,
Moebius,
Black Bananas,
Don Cherry,
Michelle Simonal,
The Selecter,
Pulsallama,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Althea and Donna,
Guru Guru,
Toni Rubio,
Animal Collective,
Hot Snakes,
Connie Case,
Barclay James Harvest,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crime,
L. Decosne,
The Barracudas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Detroit Cobras,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minutemen,
Swans,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Das Ding,
Harmonia,
Depeche Mode,
AZ,
June Days,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Barbara Tucker,
10cc,
Ken Boothe,
Glenn Branca,
Isaac Hayes,
Jacob Miller,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.