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 Malaysia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manchester.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Boogie Down Productions to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Shoche,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Organ,
Iggy Pop,
Alton Ellis,
Ronnie Foster,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Anakelly,
JFA,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sarah Menescal,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Hardrive,
Altered Images,
Minor Threat,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Underground Resistance,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sparks,
Joensuu 1685,
OOIOO,
The Cramps,
Little Man,
Saccharine Trust,
Darondo,
Harry Pussy,
B.T. Express,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cluster,
Malaria!,
Black Pus,
Warsaw,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siglo XX,
Unwound,
The Divine Comedy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Oneida,
R.M.O.,
John Holt,
Radio Birdman,
Sandy B,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Magma,
Bluetip,
MC5,
T. Rex,
Robert Hood,
Kevin Saunderson,
Agent Orange,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.