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 Taiwan and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Reuben Wilson to the electroclash 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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dead Boys,
Moss Icon,
Charles Mingus,
Arthur Verocai,
kango's stein massive,
Quando Quango,
Yazoo,
Interpol,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Circle Jerks,
Warsaw,
Zero Boys,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gerry Rafferty,
Deadbeat,
Das Ding,
The Velvet Underground,
FM Einheit,
Funky Four + One,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bang On A Can,
Black Moon,
Franke,
Blossom Toes,
Visage,
Amon Düül,
Khruangbin,
Don Cherry,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Deakin,
Audionom,
Ludus,
Ralphi Rosario,
Archie Shepp,
Iggy Pop,
L. Decosne,
Michelle Simonal,
Can,
The Birthday Party,
Au Pairs,
Crispy Ambulance,
Brass Construction,
In Retrospect,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Technova,
The Slits,
Big Daddy Kane,
Make Up,
Pussy Galore,
Lalo Schifrin,
Hardrive,
The Grass Roots,
James White and The Blacks,
E-Dancer,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Carl Craig,
Alice Coltrane,
Boogie Down Productions,
Morten Harket,
Rekid,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.