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 Honduras and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Rotary Connection to the grime 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Von Mondo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radiohead,
Symarip,
Johnny Clarke,
Ornette Coleman,
Ronnie Foster,
Fluxion,
Reuben Wilson,
Theoretical Girls,
Eve St. Jones,
48th St. Collective,
Television Personalities,
Boz Scaggs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Intrusion,
The Mummies,
Tim Buckley,
Michelle Simonal,
Jandek,
Lalo Schifrin,
Donny Hathaway,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fela Kuti,
Malaria!,
Sandy B,
The Red Krayola,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Whodini,
B.T. Express,
The Five Americans,
JFA,
Bobby Byrd,
Nik Kershaw,
Bush Tetras,
The Selecter,
Suicide,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oblivians,
Mad Mike,
cv313,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Second Layer,
Roxy Music,
the Swans,
The Durutti Column,
The American Breed,
The Angels of Light,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Sonics,
Soul II Soul,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Maurizio,
Shoche,
Chris Corsano,
Skaos,
Wire,
Neu!,
Lalann,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.