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 Armenia and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Youth Brigade to the rock 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Infiniti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
UT,
Toni Rubio,
Reuben Wilson,
Moebius,
Iggy Pop,
The Golliwogs,
Youth Brigade,
The Happenings,
Das Ding,
Q65,
Marine Girls,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Tremeloes,
a-ha,
Massinfluence,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Fire Engines,
Fatback Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Can,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ultra Naté,
Animal Collective,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Smoke,
Avey Tare,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lyres,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sound Behaviour,
H. Thieme,
The Modern Lovers,
Arthur Verocai,
Yaz,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Trojans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Alton Ellis,
The Techniques,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Chrome,
Todd Terry,
Archie Shepp,
The Leaves,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Walker Brothers,
Minor Threat,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
AZ,
Moby Grape,
Jeff Mills,
Second Layer,
Camberwell Now,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Tommy Roe,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.