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 Bulgaria and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar 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 Adolescents to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
A Certain Ratio,
Mo-Dettes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Cymande,
Camouflage,
The Red Krayola,
Joe Smooth,
Michelle Simonal,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The American Breed,
The Mojo Men,
Jacob Miller,
Suicide,
Electric Prunes,
Inner City,
Junior Murvin,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ossler,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Slackers,
Los Fastidios,
Crime,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Magazine,
JFA,
Deepchord,
The Young Rascals,
Eurythmics,
Gabor Szabo,
Stereo Dub,
Fatback Band,
U.S. Maple,
Jandek,
Harmonia,
Wolf Eyes,
Nico,
Crooked Eye,
Dave Gahan,
The Pop Group,
Josef K,
Erykah Badu,
The Happenings,
Howard Jones,
Cameo,
Cheater Slicks,
Dead Boys,
Icehouse,
Radio Birdman,
OOIOO,
Chris & Cosey,
Maleditus Sound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Pretty Things,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
James White and The Blacks,
Amazonics,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Coltrane,
Connie Case,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.