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 Croatia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 AZ to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
The New Christs,
L. Decosne,
T.S.O.L.,
Circle Jerks,
Soul Sonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gun Club,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Whodini,
The Real Kids,
Mad Mike,
Ponytail,
Mission of Burma,
Livin' Joy,
Lightning Bolt,
Shuggie Otis,
Bobby Byrd,
Davy DMX,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Doors,
The Electric Prunes,
Chrome,
Bizarre Inc.,
OOIOO,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cybotron,
Icehouse,
The Grass Roots,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jeff Lynne,
Connie Case,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wings,
MDC,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ice-T,
The Young Rascals,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Q65,
Traffic Nightmare,
Oneida,
The Detroit Cobras,
Albert Ayler,
F. McDonald,
Dead Boys,
Mandrill,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Royal Trux,
The Dead C,
Delon & Dalcan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Stooges,
Joey Negro,
Funkadelic,
The Cure,
The Kinks,
Loose Ends,
Suburban Knight,
Bootsy Collins,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.