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 Maldives and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Camberwell Now 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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
The Fortunes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Loose Ends,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
LL Cool J,
Neil Young,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Crooked Eye,
Wire,
Babytalk,
Alphaville,
Tommy Roe,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Golliwogs,
Visage,
Public Enemy,
Donny Hathaway,
Sight & Sound,
Agitation Free,
Joe Smooth,
Magma,
Joy Division,
Gang Starr,
Albert Ayler,
Marc Almond,
World's Most,
The Move,
Altered Images,
Alice Coltrane,
X-101,
Boz Scaggs,
Rapeman,
Rufus Thomas,
Lakeside,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wasted Youth,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sarah Menescal,
Grey Daturas,
Ralphi Rosario,
Japan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roxy Music,
Infiniti,
Pere Ubu,
Television,
Underground Resistance,
The Trojans,
Funky Four + One,
Gabor Szabo,
The Count Five,
Livin' Joy,
Skarface,
Metal Thangz,
Main Source,
Sonic Youth,
Vainqueur,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.