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 Venezuela and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the güiro 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 Michelle Simonal to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Swans,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Angels of Light,
Graham Central Station,
Black Pus,
Depeche Mode,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lower 48,
June of 44,
The Standells,
Panda Bear,
Bronski Beat,
Ten City,
Boz Scaggs,
The Happenings,
Nirvana,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Warren Ellis,
Brass Construction,
Hasil Adkins,
Altered Images,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Janne Schatter,
The Misunderstood,
Lou Reed,
Radiohead,
the Slits,
Banda Bassotti,
Al Stewart,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Excepter,
Zapp,
Derrick May,
Suicide,
Cameo,
DJ Style,
E-Dancer,
The Star Department,
The Raincoats,
The Blues Magoos,
Icehouse,
Peter & Gordon,
Mantronix,
The New Christs,
Gang of Four,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hoover,
F. McDonald,
Ronnie Foster,
Saccharine Trust,
Magma,
Tears for Fears,
Kas Product,
New Age Steppers,
Ituana,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Judy Mowatt,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
This Heat,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.