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 Brazil and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the rock 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Angry Samoans,
Black Sheep,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Television Personalities,
Sex Pistols,
The Evens,
Public Image Ltd.,
Chrome,
Brass Construction,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Scientists,
PIL,
Subhumans,
The Black Dice,
The Techniques,
The Litter,
Nick Fraelich,
Flipper,
The American Breed,
Camberwell Now,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Flag,
Carl Craig,
Marc Almond,
Cameo,
The Offenders,
Lower 48,
the Sonics,
Iggy Pop,
Trumans Water,
Soulsonic Force,
Unwound,
Crime,
Mandrill,
Steve Hackett,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sällskapet,
Ituana,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fugazi,
The Zeros,
Soul II Soul,
John Foxx,
Echospace,
Yusef Lateef,
Infiniti,
Rufus Thomas,
The Young Rascals,
Jawbox,
Dawn Penn,
Lalo Schifrin,
Alton Ellis,
The Gun Club,
Isaac Hayes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.