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 Montenegro and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Skaos to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Ponytail,
Cluster,
The Kinks,
Warsaw,
Joyce Sims,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cameo,
Al Stewart,
The Leaves,
Shoche,
Loose Ends,
Rites of Spring,
Soul II Soul,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mark Hollis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Junior Murvin,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Yaz,
Faust,
The Tremeloes,
Eric Dolphy,
The Blackbyrds,
The New Christs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Banda Bassotti,
FM Einheit,
Chrome,
The Dave Clark Five,
Reuben Wilson,
Funkadelic,
Pulsallama,
Marc Almond,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Victims,
Nas,
Alice Coltrane,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kevin Saunderson,
Byron Stingily,
Cal Tjader,
Soul Sonic Force,
Soulsonic Force,
Symarip,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nik Kershaw,
Freddie Wadling,
The Real Kids,
Robert Wyatt,
Unrelated Segments,
Royal Trux,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kayak,
Wolf Eyes,
New York Dolls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hashim,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
a-ha,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.