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 Burkina and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Surgeon to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Gang Gang Dance,
Moby Grape,
Ronnie Foster,
Letta Mbulu,
Jeff Lynne,
John Foxx,
Quadrant,
KRS-One,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Skaos,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Scratch Acid,
Maleditus Sound,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Minutemen,
the Germs,
Chris Corsano,
New Age Steppers,
Section 25,
Black Flag,
The Dead C,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Young Rascals,
Oblivians,
B.T. Express,
Lightning Bolt,
Soft Cell,
Unrelated Segments,
Rakim,
Malaria!,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Simply Red,
Tears for Fears,
Arcadia,
Harmonia,
Gang Green,
Flash Fearless,
Nils Olav,
Amon Düül,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sandy B,
The United States of America,
Jacob Miller,
JFA,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Avey Tare,
Rites of Spring,
The Zeros,
Trumans Water,
Y Pants,
Nas,
Basic Channel,
Isaac Hayes,
Kayak,
The Techniques,
Japan,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Electric Prunes,
the Swans,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.