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 Comoros and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manila.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro 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 Dead Boys to the disco 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Eden Ahbez,
The Martian,
The Dead C,
Stockholm Monsters,
Adolescents,
Tres Demented,
X-102,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Pop Group,
Bootsy Collins,
Reagan Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Desert Stars,
Second Layer,
Amazonics,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
David Axelrod,
The Invisible,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Letta Mbulu,
The Cramps,
Barbara Tucker,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Happenings,
The United States of America,
Delta 5,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Porter Ricks,
Simply Red,
Shoche,
Marine Girls,
Q65,
Negative Approach,
Quantec,
Metal Thangz,
Lower 48,
Wings,
CMW,
Sandy B,
Depeche Mode,
Surgeon,
Ornette Coleman,
Dennis Brown,
Blake Baxter,
PIL,
ABC,
Curtis Mayfield,
Grauzone,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Litter,
The Fugs,
Maleditus Sound,
Nirvana,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hot Snakes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sun City Girls,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.