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 Guinea and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Essential Logic to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Josef K,
New Order,
Yaz,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Aural Exciters,
LL Cool J,
Grauzone,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Max Romeo,
Lou Christie,
Vladislav Delay,
Janne Schatter,
Byron Stingily,
Bronski Beat,
Boogie Down Productions,
Subhumans,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eurythmics,
Sight & Sound,
CMW,
Funky Four + One,
Sixth Finger,
Agitation Free,
Minor Threat,
Lakeside,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Silicon Teens,
The Doors,
Talk Talk,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Harmonia,
Shuggie Otis,
Minnie Riperton,
Kayak,
Mary Jane Girls,
Chris Corsano,
Lalann,
Mr. Review,
Glenn Branca,
The Real Kids,
Fad Gadget,
Oblivians,
Ponytail,
Maurizio,
Man Eating Sloth,
Circle Jerks,
The Modern Lovers,
Rites of Spring,
The Skatalites,
Groovy Waters,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Index,
Reuben Wilson,
Robert Wyatt,
Bizarre Inc.,
New York Dolls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Fuzztones,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.