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 France and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rotary Connection to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
Agitation Free,
Glambeats Corp.,
The American Breed,
Wire,
Delta 5,
Oneida,
Lakeside,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Judy Mowatt,
KRS-One,
Stetsasonic,
Quadrant,
The Seeds,
The Gap Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Buzzcocks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kas Product,
John Coltrane,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Barry Ungar,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sandy B,
Sexual Harrassment,
Joyce Sims,
Masters at Work,
Todd Terry,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Swell Maps,
Tropical Tobacco,
In Retrospect,
Crime,
Echospace,
Dennis Brown,
Suicide,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Janne Schatter,
The Moody Blues,
Neu!,
Gabor Szabo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bluetip,
Sixth Finger,
Barclay James Harvest,
Idris Muhammad,
Nik Kershaw,
The Sound,
Thompson Twins,
Make Up,
The Angels of Light,
Public Image Ltd.,
Maleditus Sound,
Skarface,
Malaria!,
Bronski Beat,
H. Thieme,
Trumans Water,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Visage,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.