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 Greece and from Lille.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar 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 EPMD to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Lower 48,
Joey Negro,
Public Image Ltd.,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Icehouse,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Fire Engines,
The Stooges,
Harpers Bizarre,
Niagra,
Unwound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Swell Maps,
Gang Gang Dance,
Barbara Tucker,
Desert Stars,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eurythmics,
Das Ding,
Aaron Thompson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gichy Dan,
Underground Resistance,
Black Sheep,
Sällskapet,
Nas,
Quando Quango,
Cal Tjader,
Talk Talk,
The Gap Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pussy Galore,
Fear,
New Age Steppers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Index,
The Young Rascals,
Inner City,
Nik Kershaw,
Half Japanese,
F. McDonald,
The J.B.'s,
Fluxion,
Clear Light,
cv313,
Khruangbin,
June Days,
Sexual Harrassment,
Moss Icon,
Jacob Miller,
Public Enemy,
JFA,
The Litter,
Skriet,
Alice Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gladiators,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ultimate Spinach,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.