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 Manchester.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin 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 Fat Boys to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 H. Thieme. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
The Monochrome Set,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mantronix,
Royal Trux,
Amon Düül II,
The Grass Roots,
Dark Day,
The Skatalites,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Panda Bear,
Bobby Sherman,
the Slits,
Faraquet,
Section 25,
The Mojo Men,
Sister Nancy,
Max Romeo,
The Red Krayola,
Sexual Harrassment,
Joy Division,
the Association,
Massinfluence,
The Vogues,
Severed Heads,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lee Hazlewood,
This Heat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Modern Lovers,
Minor Threat,
Cameo,
Lyres,
Kool Moe Dee,
Oneida,
Gichy Dan,
Leonard Cohen,
LL Cool J,
Pulsallama,
Lebanon Hanover,
Marine Girls,
Alison Limerick,
Minny Pops,
Joey Negro,
Second Layer,
These Immortal Souls,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The United States of America,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Index,
Radiohead,
The Dead C,
Brass Construction,
Magma,
Bronski Beat,
Isaac Hayes,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Real Kids,
Gastr Del Sol,
Wire,
Sonny Sharrock,
Danielle Patucci,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.