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 Namibia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Surgeon,
Blake Baxter,
The Modern Lovers,
Gabor Szabo,
Albert Ayler,
Von Mondo,
Max Romeo,
Interpol,
Deakin,
Yusef Lateef,
a-ha,
Kas Product,
Eli Mardock,
Fluxion,
The United States of America,
Rites of Spring,
Jandek,
The Index,
Bill Near,
Minnie Riperton,
Joyce Sims,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Subhumans,
Rufus Thomas,
New York Dolls,
The American Breed,
Andrew Hill,
Swell Maps,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nas,
Roy Ayers,
The Happenings,
The Cowsills,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Main Source,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barclay James Harvest,
Yazoo,
Grandmaster Flash,
PIL,
the Human League,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Parry Music,
Tim Buckley,
Michelle Simonal,
Wings,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Sonics,
The Names,
Infiniti,
Piero Umiliani,
Tears for Fears,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nick Fraelich,
F. McDonald,
Urselle,
Alton Ellis,
Stiv Bators,
Wally Richardson,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.