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 Swaziland 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the grime 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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Marshall Jefferson,
Leonard Cohen,
Michelle Simonal,
Big Daddy Kane,
Quando Quango,
Subhumans,
Fad Gadget,
Stiv Bators,
The Neon Judgement,
Television,
Von Mondo,
The Shadows of Knight,
Monks,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Monochrome Set,
Wasted Youth,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ronnie Foster,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jawbox,
Rod Modell,
Make Up,
Funkadelic,
Metal Thangz,
Siglo XX,
Nik Kershaw,
Johnny Clarke,
The Wake,
the Swans,
the Human League,
Erykah Badu,
Youth Brigade,
Angry Samoans,
The Sonics,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kevin Saunderson,
KRS-One,
Avey Tare,
Pole,
Brass Construction,
Pagans,
The Buckinghams,
Reuben Wilson,
The Toasters,
Alphaville,
Ultravox,
Eve St. Jones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joe Smooth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jeff Mills,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Skatalites,
Anakelly,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Cymande,
Niagra,
Marine Girls,
The Music Machine,
Eden Ahbez,
Roxette,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.