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 Mongolia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Marshall Jefferson to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Black Moon,
Alison Limerick,
Skriet,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Massinfluence,
Stetsasonic,
The Sound,
Eve St. Jones,
The Invisible,
Avey Tare,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tubeway Army,
Theoretical Girls,
Cheater Slicks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Trojans,
Cybotron,
Spoonie Gee,
Slick Rick,
Sixth Finger,
Grey Daturas,
New Order,
the Association,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Pop Group,
Quantec,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Marvin Gaye,
Cecil Taylor,
Con Funk Shun,
Arthur Verocai,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Names,
Livin' Joy,
Half Japanese,
Franke,
Scratch Acid,
Adolescents,
Joy Division,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
48th St. Collective,
Peter & Gordon,
Kayak,
U.S. Maple,
The Barracudas,
Monks,
Sonic Youth,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hashim,
Moebius,
Rod Modell,
Q65,
Unrelated Segments,
Pet Shop Boys,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Whodini,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lower 48,
Minnie Riperton,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
John Lydon,
Mark Hollis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.