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 Lebanon and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joyce Sims 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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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 Gladiators,
Jimmy McGriff,
Barclay James Harvest,
Crispy Ambulance,
Moby Grape,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Kinks,
10cc,
Tres Demented,
Agent Orange,
The Index,
Brand Nubian,
David McCallum,
Ice-T,
Slave,
Can,
Moss Icon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wasted Youth,
The Young Rascals,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Coltrane,
The J.B.'s,
Pagans,
The Evens,
The Tremeloes,
Scrapy,
Massinfluence,
Aswad,
The Busters,
X-Ray Spex,
Duran Duran,
Hoover,
Echospace,
Soft Cell,
Procol Harum,
Sonic Youth,
Gichy Dan,
Kenny Larkin,
Vladislav Delay,
Rekid,
Jacob Miller,
The Sound,
Grauzone,
Maurizio,
Iggy Pop,
The Shadows of Knight,
Minny Pops,
Wolf Eyes,
T. Rex,
Schoolly D,
Danielle Patucci,
Unrelated Segments,
Colin Newman,
Derrick Morgan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jeru the Damaja,
Motorama,
Tomorrow,
Stiv Bators,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.