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 Indonesia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Soul Sonic Force to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Toni Rubio,
The Birthday Party,
The Slits,
D'Angelo,
Reagan Youth,
Suicide,
The Fall,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Moleskins,
Deakin,
Fad Gadget,
John Coltrane,
Josef K,
Roy Ayers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Aloha Tigers,
10cc,
Derrick Morgan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bill Wells,
The Move,
Infiniti,
Colin Newman,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Searchers,
Amon Düül II,
the Human League,
Harry Pussy,
Angry Samoans,
Albert Ayler,
Motorama,
Crime,
The Busters,
Negative Approach,
Joy Division,
Marmalade,
Ten City,
Chris & Cosey,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Neon Judgement,
Scan 7,
Altered Images,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
R.M.O.,
New York Dolls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Can,
Michelle Simonal,
Wolf Eyes,
Masters at Work,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Vogues,
Trumans Water,
Aswad,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pole,
The Index,
Ornette Coleman,
Severed Heads,
Fat Boys,
Judy Mowatt,
Iggy Pop,
Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys.
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.