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 Liechtenstein and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Boz Scaggs to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lungfish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Au Pairs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kerri Chandler,
Sam Rivers,
The Pretty Things,
The Standells,
Gichy Dan,
Jeff Lynne,
Cluster,
Spoonie Gee,
cv313,
One Last Wish,
The Offenders,
Metal Thangz,
Rod Modell,
Minor Threat,
X-101,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Malaria!,
Absolute Body Control,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lightning Bolt,
Young Marble Giants,
Hasil Adkins,
Ultravox,
Drexciya,
The Count Five,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Arab on Radar,
Wasted Youth,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jandek,
Moby Grape,
Sonic Youth,
Wolf Eyes,
The Dirtbombs,
Quadrant,
Janne Schatter,
Albert Ayler,
Crooked Eye,
Black Flag,
Erasure,
Marmalade,
Godley & Creme,
Thee Headcoats,
The Cramps,
Royal Trux,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sister Nancy,
Visage,
Lower 48,
The Searchers,
Rites of Spring,
Neil Young,
E-Dancer,
Lalann,
Donny Hathaway,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.