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 Fiji and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare 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 Hot Snakes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Brand Nubian,
LL Cool J,
Tim Buckley,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Moleskins,
Rotary Connection,
Todd Terry,
Minutemen,
The Happenings,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joyce Sims,
The Doors,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Walker Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Litter,
Rufus Thomas,
The Standells,
The Wake,
Scrapy,
Average White Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bluetip,
The Tremeloes,
Bill Wells,
Sam Rivers,
Eli Mardock,
Warren Ellis,
The Gladiators,
One Last Wish,
Gastr Del Sol,
Icehouse,
The Sonics,
Vainqueur,
Glenn Branca,
Youth Brigade,
Bad Manners,
Nirvana,
Shuggie Otis,
The Toasters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Grass Roots,
Chris Corsano,
The Dead C,
Junior Murvin,
Pole,
Bootsy Collins,
The Stooges,
Pierre Henry,
Deakin,
The Seeds,
cv313,
Bob Dylan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Animal Collective,
Television,
Yaz,
Das Ding,
Lou Christie,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.