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 Paraguay and from Manila.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Marine Girls to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Blake Baxter,
Sex Pistols,
X-101,
The Doors,
The Young Rascals,
Dave Gahan,
the Soft Cell,
The Smiths,
Cymande,
Lower 48,
UT,
One Last Wish,
Boredoms,
Los Fastidios,
Fugazi,
Agent Orange,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kurtis Blow,
Khruangbin,
The Offenders,
Roxette,
The Star Department,
Donny Hathaway,
DJ Style,
Hashim,
Theoretical Girls,
8 Eyed Spy,
D'Angelo,
Tim Buckley,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Christie,
Jeff Lynne,
MC5,
Gong,
Skarface,
Ossler,
H. Thieme,
Young Marble Giants,
Alphaville,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aloha Tigers,
Ultimate Spinach,
ABC,
The American Breed,
June Days,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Howard Jones,
Deadbeat,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Last Poets,
Smog,
Nick Fraelich,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soul II Soul,
The Cowsills,
Hasil Adkins,
Yaz,
Magma,
Man Eating Sloth,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.