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 Austria and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer 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 Amon Düül II to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Derrick Morgan,
Joe Smooth,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Althea and Donna,
Franke,
The Fuzztones,
Kerri Chandler,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Yusef Lateef,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Henry Cow,
The Gories,
Pantytec,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kevin Saunderson,
MC5,
Gichy Dan,
Altered Images,
Camberwell Now,
Barrington Levy,
Jawbox,
The Selecter,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Supertramp,
The American Breed,
Theoretical Girls,
D'Angelo,
Todd Terry,
Simply Red,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mark Hollis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Curtis Mayfield,
Soul II Soul,
Mantronix,
Maleditus Sound,
B.T. Express,
the Germs,
Ultravox,
Johnny Clarke,
Cybotron,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roxy Music,
FM Einheit,
Japan,
Brass Construction,
CMW,
Alphaville,
Ultra Naté,
Lalann,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
E-Dancer,
Oblivians,
Depeche Mode,
Jeru the Damaja,
Crime,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.