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 Guinea and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
David Axelrod,
Theoretical Girls,
Sonic Youth,
Danielle Patucci,
Newcleus,
Audionom,
The Cramps,
Roy Ayers,
The Toasters,
Ronan,
B.T. Express,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Invisible,
Kool Moe Dee,
Patti Smith,
The Walker Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Max Romeo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Soft Machine,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Absolute Body Control,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kaleidoscope,
Trumans Water,
David McCallum,
The Fugs,
Drexciya,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Junior Murvin,
Arab on Radar,
X-102,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Residents,
Roxette,
Simply Red,
The American Breed,
Siglo XX,
Maurizio,
Jawbox,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Khruangbin,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Country Teasers,
The Smoke,
Fela Kuti,
The Count Five,
The Victims,
Desert Stars,
Harpers Bizarre,
Skriet,
Girls At Our Best!,
EPMD,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Red Krayola,
Goldenarms,
Inner City,
CMW,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.