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 Israel and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 snare 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 Pierre Henry to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T.S.O.L. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Chris Corsano,
Young Marble Giants,
The Grass Roots,
Stetsasonic,
The Monochrome Set,
Pet Shop Boys,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ornette Coleman,
Duran Duran,
Bauhaus,
Brothers Johnson,
Mr. Review,
Laurel Aitken,
Rites of Spring,
Blancmange,
KRS-One,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Arcadia,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
In Retrospect,
Q and Not U,
The Motions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Main Source,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Flag,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pierre Henry,
Drexciya,
Al Stewart,
The Sound,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rekid,
The Moleskins,
Inner City,
Bush Tetras,
Chris & Cosey,
DJ Style,
EPMD,
Andrew Hill,
Kas Product,
X-101,
The Doors,
The Monks,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Modern Lovers,
Royal Trux,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Interpol,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Neon Judgement,
Reagan Youth,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pantytec,
PIL,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.