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 the UAE and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the rap 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Drive Like Jehu,
Schoolly D,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sight & Sound,
Max Romeo,
The Misunderstood,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ronnie Foster,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Easy Going,
Juan Atkins,
The Gladiators,
Ituana,
Tomorrow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cecil Taylor,
Kerri Chandler,
Donny Hathaway,
The Names,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
DJ Style,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Outsiders,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ultra Naté,
The Leaves,
The Dirtbombs,
Can,
Colin Newman,
Crime,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
JFA,
Girls At Our Best!,
Magazine,
Moss Icon,
Gang Starr,
Freddie Wadling,
Pierre Henry,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joensuu 1685,
Bad Manners,
Jimmy McGriff,
Robert Hood,
Supertramp,
Sarah Menescal,
Tommy Roe,
Young Marble Giants,
Tears for Fears,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Robert Görl,
The Trojans,
Soft Machine,
Minutemen,
K-Klass,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Spoonie Gee,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Knickerbockers,
Black Flag,
Severed Heads, Severed Heads, Severed Heads, Severed Heads.
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.