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 El Salvador and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 the Soft Cell to the crunk 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Amon Düül,
The Human League,
Pole,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Swans,
Jandek,
The Misunderstood,
Lindisfarne,
Groovy Waters,
Wolf Eyes,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wally Richardson,
Amon Düül II,
Soft Machine,
Gang of Four,
Piero Umiliani,
Faraquet,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ronnie Foster,
The Techniques,
Eurythmics,
Funky Four + One,
Todd Terry,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lightning Bolt,
Soul Sonic Force,
Crispy Ambulance,
Marine Girls,
a-ha,
The Smoke,
Sonic Youth,
Maleditus Sound,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tom Boy,
Amazonics,
Spoonie Gee,
Kas Product,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang Green,
the Human League,
Theoretical Girls,
Kaleidoscope,
Surgeon,
Franke,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ituana,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joey Negro,
Trumans Water,
Stetsasonic,
Camberwell Now,
Y Pants,
Ronan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.