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 Saudi Arabia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
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 güiro 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Audionom,
Country Teasers,
Sam Rivers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Banda Bassotti,
cv313,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gang Green,
Harpers Bizarre,
MDC,
Panda Bear,
Bob Dylan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Second Layer,
Sparks,
Don Cherry,
The Grass Roots,
Guru Guru,
The Blues Magoos,
Scientists,
Khruangbin,
Brass Construction,
Jesper Dahlback,
CMW,
AZ,
Derrick May,
Gong,
Charles Mingus,
The Zeros,
Ultravox,
Urselle,
Metal Thangz,
Alton Ellis,
The Associates,
Ralphi Rosario,
Matthew Bourne,
Michelle Simonal,
Gichy Dan,
Kenny Larkin,
Zero Boys,
Crooked Eye,
Patti Smith,
Robert Görl,
Absolute Body Control,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Johnny Clarke,
The Five Americans,
The Stooges,
The Wake,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Nik Kershaw,
Ken Boothe,
Echospace,
Steve Hackett,
Severed Heads,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.