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 Lebanon and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Jeff Lynne to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
EPMD,
Skarface,
Main Source,
Agent Orange,
Masters at Work,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amon Düül II,
DJ Style,
Gabor Szabo,
Lightning Bolt,
Siglo XX,
The Selecter,
Kas Product,
The Sonics,
Janne Schatter,
Nirvana,
Ice-T,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Index,
Crime,
The Last Poets,
Black Pus,
Wasted Youth,
Surgeon,
LL Cool J,
The Smiths,
Toni Rubio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Danielle Patucci,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gil Scott Heron,
Harmonia,
Max Romeo,
Tomorrow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
KRS-One,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Residents,
Bad Manners,
The Dave Clark Five,
Newcleus,
Funky Four + One,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Slave,
Sight & Sound,
John Holt,
Anakelly,
Eve St. Jones,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultravox,
Derrick May,
The Red Krayola,
Sandy B,
F. McDonald,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Amazonics,
Fugazi,
The Cowsills,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.