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 Guyana and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 oboe 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 Franke to the rock 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Roxy Music,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Move,
Sexual Harrassment,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Smiths,
Fugazi,
Leonard Cohen,
Dark Day,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cheater Slicks,
Roxette,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Sonics,
the Swans,
These Immortal Souls,
Sun City Girls,
Swell Maps,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Crispy Ambulance,
Carl Craig,
The Standells,
Joensuu 1685,
EPMD,
the Fania All-Stars,
Quadrant,
Duran Duran,
Johnny Clarke,
Laurel Aitken,
OOIOO,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Blackbyrds,
Animal Collective,
Reagan Youth,
Pussy Galore,
Swans,
Massinfluence,
Minnie Riperton,
The Monochrome Set,
Skriet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Popol Vuh,
Aswad,
Eden Ahbez,
Zero Boys,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Idris Muhammad,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Japan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tim Buckley,
Marvin Gaye,
June of 44,
Bill Wells,
Procol Harum,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Drive Like Jehu,
Anakelly,
Warren Ellis,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.