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 Peru and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 Bob Dylan to the rap 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
CMW,
The Grass Roots,
Icehouse,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Cameo,
The Count Five,
The Leaves,
The Stooges,
Eric Dolphy,
Oneida,
Peter & Gordon,
Skaos,
Pierre Henry,
Unrelated Segments,
Skriet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
David Bowie,
Alice Coltrane,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joensuu 1685,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Arthur Verocai,
Main Source,
Symarip,
Panda Bear,
Barclay James Harvest,
Michelle Simonal,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Walker Brothers,
Flash Fearless,
Y Pants,
The Searchers,
Japan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Move,
Bad Manners,
Ultravox,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bootsy Collins,
Model 500,
Nation of Ulysses,
Excepter,
Hashim,
Robert Hood,
Sarah Menescal,
Gabor Szabo,
June Days,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Erasure,
The New Christs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Unwound,
Black Bananas,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ituana,
Deadbeat,
Severed Heads,
Surgeon,
Dave Gahan,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.