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 Kenya and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 clarinet 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Young Marble Giants,
Shoche,
Johnny Osbourne,
Idris Muhammad,
Eric Dolphy,
Eden Ahbez,
Rufus Thomas,
Skarface,
T.S.O.L.,
Sparks,
Pierre Henry,
Public Image Ltd.,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ultra Naté,
Frankie Knuckles,
Camouflage,
UT,
Camberwell Now,
Warsaw,
Lower 48,
Franke,
The Monks,
Rotary Connection,
Negative Approach,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
cv313,
Moby Grape,
Nico,
The Blackbyrds,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Electric Prunes,
Derrick May,
Desert Stars,
Model 500,
Royal Trux,
Moebius,
The Evens,
The Slits,
Qualms,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Skatalites,
The Zeros,
Flamin' Groovies,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
H. Thieme,
Pylon,
The Electric Prunes,
Brass Construction,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Easy Going,
K-Klass,
Amon Düül II,
Joe Smooth,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Chrome,
X-Ray Spex,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.