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 Iran and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Nirvana to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Rakim,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dennis Brown,
Kerri Chandler,
the Normal,
Technova,
Skaos,
Dark Day,
The Mojo Men,
Fad Gadget,
Todd Rundgren,
Scan 7,
The Flesh Eaters,
Thompson Twins,
Terry Callier,
Prince Buster,
Soul Sonic Force,
Graham Central Station,
Bush Tetras,
Kas Product,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Fall,
Pere Ubu,
These Immortal Souls,
The Wake,
the Soft Cell,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Reuben Wilson,
Nik Kershaw,
Animal Collective,
the Bar-Kays,
Scott Walker,
Q and Not U,
The Red Krayola,
Traffic Nightmare,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rotary Connection,
Bad Manners,
This Heat,
DNA,
The Evens,
Hot Snakes,
Crime,
Lightning Bolt,
R.M.O.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Joy Division,
Sparks,
UT,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Monks,
Gang Green,
Quadrant,
The Skatalites,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.