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 Somalia and from Shanghai.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Crime to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All F. McDonald tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible 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?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Funkadelic,
CMW,
Shoche,
New Age Steppers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Average White Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Subhumans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Duran Duran,
The Leaves,
Audionom,
Johnny Osbourne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rotary Connection,
Main Source,
Grauzone,
Minutemen,
Tubeway Army,
The Young Rascals,
Warsaw,
Joyce Sims,
Tomorrow,
Moby Grape,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mark Hollis,
Jeru the Damaja,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Newcleus,
The Victims,
the Human League,
Alison Limerick,
Man Eating Sloth,
Animal Collective,
Siglo XX,
The Five Americans,
Reuben Wilson,
David Axelrod,
Section 25,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camouflage,
Technova,
48th St. Collective,
Accadde A,
The Divine Comedy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Isaac Hayes,
Jeff Mills,
Eli Mardock,
Nils Olav,
Junior Murvin,
Crash Course in Science,
Excepter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
KRS-One,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aswad,
Stiv Bators,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.