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 Serbia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 linndrum 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 Sonic Youth to the grime 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 Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
ABC,
The Motions,
Agitation Free,
Schoolly D,
This Heat,
Man Eating Sloth,
Oneida,
Laurel Aitken,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Minutemen,
Gregory Isaacs,
Negative Approach,
Cluster,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sun Ra,
Suicide,
JFA,
Yazoo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Simply Red,
Bill Near,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Colin Newman,
Swans,
Pole,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ludus,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Brand Nubian,
Bobby Womack,
Banda Bassotti,
The Count Five,
Audionom,
Danielle Patucci,
The Walker Brothers,
James White and The Blacks,
Crooked Eye,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Swell Maps,
The Move,
Judy Mowatt,
Skaos,
The J.B.'s,
Eden Ahbez,
Los Fastidios,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Crime,
Porter Ricks,
Maurizio,
Blake Baxter,
Model 500,
Rosa Yemen,
The Velvet Underground,
The Birthday Party,
Deepchord,
The Moody Blues,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Boz Scaggs,
The Leaves,
Rod Modell,
Toni Rubio,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.