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 Ethiopia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Milan.
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 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 Holger Czukay 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 Nirvana to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Mission of Burma,
The Toasters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lou Christie,
The Black Dice,
Roxy Music,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Grey Daturas,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Bananas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Livin' Joy,
The Remains,
Monolake,
Althea and Donna,
Fat Boys,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Franke,
The Smoke,
A Certain Ratio,
Smog,
Bill Wells,
Simply Red,
Andrew Hill,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dave Gahan,
Agent Orange,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pulsallama,
ABBA,
The Residents,
The Index,
Lalo Schifrin,
Basic Channel,
The Electric Prunes,
Donny Hathaway,
Jeff Lynne,
Faust,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Loose Ends,
Sister Nancy,
Model 500,
MDC,
Pole,
Eric B and Rakim,
Chris & Cosey,
DJ Style,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marcia Griffiths,
Thee Headcoats,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stiv Bators,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
AZ,
Don Cherry,
John Cale,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.