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 Colombia and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Seeds to the electroclash 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Davy DMX,
Anthony Braxton,
the Human League,
The Selecter,
Radiohead,
Eric Dolphy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oneida,
James White and The Blacks,
Livin' Joy,
New Age Steppers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Moody Blues,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Detroit Cobras,
Tomorrow,
a-ha,
Echospace,
Scratch Acid,
Wasted Youth,
Joyce Sims,
The Knickerbockers,
Albert Ayler,
Kevin Saunderson,
Flipper,
Scan 7,
Ronnie Foster,
Robert Wyatt,
R.M.O.,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Arab on Radar,
Jerry's Kids,
Average White Band,
DNA,
The Saints,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fear,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Goldenarms,
Roxette,
Cameo,
Second Layer,
Avey Tare,
D'Angelo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Blues Magoos,
The Walker Brothers,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Trojans,
T. Rex,
Bill Near,
The Real Kids,
Faust,
Johnny Osbourne,
Black Pus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
La Düsseldorf,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.