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 Congo and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 spring reverb 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the jazz 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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
The Shadows of Knight,
One Last Wish,
Monks,
Second Layer,
KRS-One,
Tom Boy,
the Sonics,
The Durutti Column,
Godley & Creme,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Faraquet,
Rekid,
Wolf Eyes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Niagra,
The Cowsills,
Ludus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Susan Cadogan,
Essential Logic,
Prince Buster,
Make Up,
Brass Construction,
Animal Collective,
The Names,
John Foxx,
Ossler,
Lakeside,
Skarface,
Deakin,
The Young Rascals,
Wire,
Radiopuhelimet,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Arab on Radar,
Gang Green,
Sarah Menescal,
Nas,
Soulsonic Force,
Joyce Sims,
Jeff Lynne,
Lindisfarne,
Alphaville,
Hot Snakes,
Minny Pops,
T.S.O.L.,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Todd Terry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Seeds,
Erykah Badu,
Reuben Wilson,
Rapeman,
Dead Boys,
Ultimate Spinach,
Dennis Brown,
Technova,
Infiniti,
Au Pairs,
Mandrill,
Derrick Morgan,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.