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 Korea North and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb 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 China Crisis to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
DJ Style,
Arcadia,
Liliput,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minny Pops,
Siglo XX,
Can,
David Axelrod,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Bar-Kays,
Bob Dylan,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Alison Limerick,
The Index,
Symarip,
Whodini,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Gun Club,
The Tremeloes,
The Blues Magoos,
Swans,
Scan 7,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kerri Chandler,
a-ha,
Los Fastidios,
Sister Nancy,
The Fire Engines,
The Monochrome Set,
Duran Duran,
The Barracudas,
Joe Smooth,
The Blackbyrds,
Connie Case,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Beau Brummels,
Outsiders,
The Durutti Column,
Bobby Hutcherson,
LL Cool J,
X-102,
Michelle Simonal,
John Cale,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Electric Prunes,
The Sonics,
Skarface,
The Cowsills,
Lou Christie,
Hasil Adkins,
K-Klass,
The Angels of Light,
Byron Stingily,
Wire,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
cv313,
Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse.
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.