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 Netherlands and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ 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 Buckinghams to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roxette,
Lalann,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Toni Rubio,
Josef K,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Remains,
Agent Orange,
Soft Machine,
Tommy Roe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jeru the Damaja,
June Days,
David McCallum,
Stereo Dub,
Malaria!,
Blake Baxter,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Janne Schatter,
Panda Bear,
La Düsseldorf,
Soul II Soul,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kas Product,
Groovy Waters,
Morten Harket,
DJ Style,
China Crisis,
The Busters,
Country Teasers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Misunderstood,
Sonic Youth,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
JFA,
Jawbox,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rites of Spring,
Bootsy Collins,
Gong,
Minny Pops,
Radio Birdman,
the Germs,
The Fugs,
Freddie Wadling,
Eric Dolphy,
Bad Manners,
Pantaleimon,
Carl Craig,
Mo-Dettes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zero Boys,
Nirvana,
Symarip,
The Litter,
Kurtis Blow,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Radiohead,
Jerry's Kids,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.