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 Germany and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Minnie Riperton to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Metal Thangz,
Amon Düül II,
Rites of Spring,
Bob Dylan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Section 25,
The Invisible,
Average White Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jandek,
Bill Wells,
The Music Machine,
Tom Boy,
Fatback Band,
Quando Quango,
Essential Logic,
The Last Poets,
Judy Mowatt,
Flipper,
Agitation Free,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Slackers,
Shoche,
Lou Christie,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Henry Cow,
Darondo,
Marc Almond,
DNA,
Sam Rivers,
Maleditus Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Susan Cadogan,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Deakin,
The New Christs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bush Tetras,
Todd Terry,
James White and The Blacks,
Guru Guru,
Jacques Brel,
The Wake,
The Angels of Light,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Human League,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
KRS-One,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camouflage,
The Sonics,
Surgeon,
The Five Americans,
The Misunderstood,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jacob Miller,
The Doors,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Wings,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.