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 Marshall Islands and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Negative Approach to the grunge 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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Joe Smooth,
David Axelrod,
Interpol,
Lalann,
Aural Exciters,
The Cosmic Jokers,
World's Most,
Boogie Down Productions,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
48th St. Collective,
The Smiths,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Shoche,
Bronski Beat,
Ultimate Spinach,
KRS-One,
Brass Construction,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Hashim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Liliput,
China Crisis,
Cal Tjader,
The Toasters,
Pulsallama,
Scientists,
Mission of Burma,
Trumans Water,
The Golliwogs,
Dave Gahan,
Animal Collective,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cure,
Eurythmics,
Matthew Bourne,
Letta Mbulu,
Procol Harum,
The Red Krayola,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Organ,
the Normal,
Gerry Rafferty,
Zero Boys,
The Cowsills,
Camouflage,
Bill Near,
Eve St. Jones,
CMW,
The Busters,
Fad Gadget,
Pantytec,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sugar Minott,
The Doors,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sällskapet,
Joey Negro,
The Motions,
Dead Boys,
Chris & Cosey,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.