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 Afghanistan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar 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 Judy Mowatt to the rock 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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Anthony Braxton,
Qualms,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wasted Youth,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lungfish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Soft Cell,
Groovy Waters,
The Slackers,
One Last Wish,
Derrick Morgan,
Mars,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gichy Dan,
Neu!,
Yaz,
The Smiths,
Underground Resistance,
The Saints,
Peter and Kerry,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Von Mondo,
The Electric Prunes,
Erykah Badu,
The Wake,
Index,
The Moleskins,
Bill Wells,
The Cure,
X-102,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harmonia,
A Certain Ratio,
Bronski Beat,
The Slits,
Crash Course in Science,
Technova,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Procol Harum,
Marmalade,
Wings,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nation of Ulysses,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Traffic Nightmare,
Blossom Toes,
Hashim,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Shuggie Otis,
Aloha Tigers,
Warsaw,
The Mojo Men,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Motions,
Alice Coltrane,
Ponytail,
The Kinks,
Robert Görl,
Hasil Adkins,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.