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 Serbia and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Godley & Creme 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 B.T. Express. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Theoretical Girls,
Darondo,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Golliwogs,
Stereo Dub,
Con Funk Shun,
Babytalk,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Walker Brothers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Erykah Badu,
Fad Gadget,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mark Hollis,
Bang On A Can,
The Knickerbockers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sun City Girls,
Skarface,
Tomorrow,
Moebius,
The Sound,
Pantytec,
Lee Hazlewood,
R.M.O.,
Spoonie Gee,
The Raincoats,
Oblivians,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sandy B,
Bronski Beat,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Massinfluence,
ABC,
Hasil Adkins,
Qualms,
Blake Baxter,
David Bowie,
FM Einheit,
Patti Smith,
EPMD,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lakeside,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
cv313,
Amazonics,
Thompson Twins,
Icehouse,
Los Fastidios,
The Buckinghams,
Maleditus Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Supertramp,
Ituana,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sugar Minott,
This Heat,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.