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 Madagascar and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Beijing.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Heaven 17 to the rap 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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every U.S. Maple record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Desert Stars,
Animal Collective,
the Germs,
Alphaville,
Fatback Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Idris Muhammad,
Shuggie Otis,
Dual Sessions,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Robert Hood,
Swell Maps,
Bill Near,
10cc,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Associates,
Roy Ayers,
Scott Walker,
Freddie Wadling,
The Count Five,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Dirtbombs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Isaac Hayes,
Nils Olav,
Grandmaster Flash,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sixth Finger,
a-ha,
Cecil Taylor,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bobby Womack,
Skarface,
FM Einheit,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lindisfarne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masters at Work,
The Birthday Party,
Radiohead,
Brick,
The Cure,
Yazoo,
Juan Atkins,
Flash Fearless,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Doors,
Gichy Dan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Soft Cell,
Reuben Wilson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Newcleus,
X-102,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tim Buckley,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.