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 Afghanistan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro 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 Ponytail to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments 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?
Judy Mowatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Seeds,
Zapp,
Ornette Coleman,
Quantec,
The Barracudas,
Gastr Del Sol,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Icehouse,
Slick Rick,
The Fortunes,
The Tremeloes,
Sandy B,
The Saints,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pere Ubu,
The Toasters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Offenders,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Josef K,
Smog,
Nick Fraelich,
New York Dolls,
Delta 5,
Bad Manners,
Lucky Dragons,
Underground Resistance,
The Divine Comedy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jeff Lynne,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Quadrant,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lightning Bolt,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Invisible,
Sällskapet,
Subhumans,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mission of Burma,
Infiniti,
ABBA,
Tom Boy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rotary Connection,
Ultimate Spinach,
Connie Case,
Scott Walker,
JFA,
Funky Four + One,
Iggy Pop,
The Moody Blues,
Minutemen,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Normal,
Make Up,
The United States of America,
The Vogues,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.