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 Costa Rica 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ornette Coleman to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
The Gories,
Kaleidoscope,
Mr. Review,
Gang Starr,
Joyce Sims,
Lebanon Hanover,
Michelle Simonal,
Lindisfarne,
Fugazi,
Sandy B,
Eden Ahbez,
Saccharine Trust,
The Star Department,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lou Reed,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Janne Schatter,
Soulsonic Force,
Black Flag,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jimmy McGriff,
T.S.O.L.,
Brass Construction,
Tommy Roe,
Nick Fraelich,
Leonard Cohen,
Dave Gahan,
June Days,
the Human League,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Crispy Ambulance,
Girls At Our Best!,
Maleditus Sound,
Arcadia,
The New Christs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
In Retrospect,
Babytalk,
David McCallum,
Metal Thangz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Byron Stingily,
ABC,
The Knickerbockers,
Au Pairs,
the Soft Cell,
Cal Tjader,
Icehouse,
Skriet,
Outsiders,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pole,
Infiniti,
Drexciya,
Thompson Twins,
Wings,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.