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 Ecuador and from London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 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 Marvin Gaye to the jazz 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
Minnie Riperton,
The Beau Brummels,
Alton Ellis,
The Evens,
Sparks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Minutemen,
Fad Gadget,
Silicon Teens,
The Skatalites,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hoover,
Minor Threat,
Prince Buster,
Goldenarms,
Brick,
Pole,
Girls At Our Best!,
Duran Duran,
Bizarre Inc.,
Saccharine Trust,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lebanon Hanover,
Neil Young,
Pussy Galore,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter & Gordon,
The Shadows of Knight,
Donald Byrd,
Robert Hood,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dawn Penn,
Reagan Youth,
The Vogues,
The Blackbyrds,
The Detroit Cobras,
Panda Bear,
China Crisis,
John Cale,
Shuggie Otis,
Soft Machine,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kaleidoscope,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Sonics,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cluster,
Sonic Youth,
Chris & Cosey,
Eden Ahbez,
Crash Course in Science,
Pere Ubu,
The Fugs,
Bush Tetras,
Tres Demented,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Music Machine,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.