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 Tunisia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Girls At Our Best! to the crunk 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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Jandek,
Niagra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Bananas,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Stereo Dub,
Cheater Slicks,
Warren Ellis,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Velvet Underground,
Mary Jane Girls,
Depeche Mode,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Flipper,
Alison Limerick,
John Foxx,
Altered Images,
Crispian St. Peters,
Avey Tare,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Barrington Levy,
KRS-One,
The Black Dice,
Aswad,
Rotary Connection,
the Sonics,
Danielle Patucci,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sugar Minott,
Wasted Youth,
The Blues Magoos,
Lalann,
X-102,
Boogie Down Productions,
Flash Fearless,
Los Fastidios,
The Five Americans,
Essential Logic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rod Modell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Robert Görl,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Agent Orange,
Drexciya,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marine Girls,
The Index,
Gang Starr,
Make Up,
Model 500,
Sister Nancy,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.