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 Bolivia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 La Düsseldorf to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
the Bar-Kays,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Graham Central Station,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Brick,
Gastr Del Sol,
Infiniti,
Barclay James Harvest,
Reagan Youth,
The Move,
Stereo Dub,
Ronan,
Neil Young,
Scott Walker,
Dave Gahan,
R.M.O.,
Black Pus,
The Cowsills,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Wake,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Wally Richardson,
Black Sheep,
Ice-T,
ABBA,
The Five Americans,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ronnie Foster,
Joe Smooth,
Barrington Levy,
Rotary Connection,
Index,
Jeff Mills,
Magma,
Lalo Schifrin,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tres Demented,
Hardrive,
The Music Machine,
Sex Pistols,
World's Most,
The Young Rascals,
Joe Finger,
Shoche,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Flash Fearless,
Sister Nancy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Intrusion,
Urselle,
Lalann,
Fat Boys,
The Fuzztones,
Maurizio,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Suburban Knight,
Con Funk Shun,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.