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 Oman and from Calgary.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 EPMD to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Supertramp,
Charles Mingus,
The Star Department,
Prince Buster,
Harmonia,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Adolescents,
Soft Machine,
Kurtis Blow,
Iggy Pop,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Monochrome Set,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lou Reed,
Eddi Front,
Aloha Tigers,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Procol Harum,
Mars,
Soft Cell,
Nas,
JFA,
David Axelrod,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Vogues,
Vladislav Delay,
Nik Kershaw,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Fortunes,
Dual Sessions,
Fela Kuti,
Depeche Mode,
Silicon Teens,
Organ,
Circle Jerks,
Sparks,
This Heat,
Lindisfarne,
Japan,
Matthew Bourne,
Janne Schatter,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Albert Ayler,
Reagan Youth,
Symarip,
Rites of Spring,
Curtis Mayfield,
Inner City,
John Holt,
Derrick Morgan,
Bill Near,
Zapp,
June of 44,
Max Romeo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Raincoats,
Lalo Schifrin,
David Bowie,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Heaven 17,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.