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 Denmark and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes 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 Radiohead to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
ABC,
The Moody Blues,
Infiniti,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rod Modell,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Hashim,
Spoonie Gee,
Rhythm & Sound,
L. Decosne,
Skarface,
DJ Sneak,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cramps,
David Bowie,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Smoke,
Minny Pops,
the Normal,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bobby Byrd,
LL Cool J,
The Kinks,
Eli Mardock,
Lakeside,
Crime,
Alphaville,
Aloha Tigers,
Average White Band,
Yazoo,
Public Enemy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Half Japanese,
The Walker Brothers,
Au Pairs,
Lightning Bolt,
MC5,
Oneida,
Jeff Mills,
Warsaw,
Talk Talk,
Junior Murvin,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Little Man,
Japan,
Laurel Aitken,
Shuggie Otis,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Alton Ellis,
Glambeats Corp.,
OOIOO,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pylon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deadbeat,
Scion,
Sister Nancy,
Gichy Dan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.