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 Iraq and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Fear to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
ABBA,
Brand Nubian,
Alphaville,
The Busters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barry Ungar,
Derrick May,
Cybotron,
Lungfish,
kango's stein massive,
The Gories,
Adolescents,
Barclay James Harvest,
John Coltrane,
X-Ray Spex,
Scan 7,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tommy Roe,
Faraquet,
Radiopuhelimet,
Siglo XX,
Joe Finger,
Bootsy Collins,
Prince Buster,
Au Pairs,
Gil Scott Heron,
L. Decosne,
Fatback Band,
The Smiths,
Accadde A,
The Moody Blues,
The Red Krayola,
Dave Gahan,
Juan Atkins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Motions,
The Slackers,
Tres Demented,
The Walker Brothers,
Outsiders,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Toni Rubio,
Marc Almond,
The Grass Roots,
The Invisible,
Grandmaster Flash,
Todd Terry,
D'Angelo,
Lalann,
Marmalade,
The Misunderstood,
Mars,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bobby Byrd,
Guru Guru,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eric Copeland,
Sparks,
The Raincoats,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.