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 Latvia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Massinfluence to the dance 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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes 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 Blues Magoos 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?
the Germs,
Derrick May,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Moleskins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
David Axelrod,
The Black Dice,
the Fania All-Stars,
Glenn Branca,
Mandrill,
48th St. Collective,
Charles Mingus,
Schoolly D,
Outsiders,
Gerry Rafferty,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lalann,
Suicide,
Inner City,
Gong,
Agitation Free,
Freddie Wadling,
Echospace,
Fluxion,
Talk Talk,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Barbara Tucker,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Fire Engines,
Ice-T,
Delon & Dalcan,
Boredoms,
The Smiths,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bootsy Collins,
Graham Central Station,
Aloha Tigers,
Tom Boy,
The Velvet Underground,
Interpol,
Procol Harum,
Sun Ra,
The Remains,
Harpers Bizarre,
Grauzone,
Rotary Connection,
Sugar Minott,
Fad Gadget,
Siglo XX,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Litter,
Chris & Cosey,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Normal,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Leaves,
Newcleus,
Slick Rick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.