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 Costa Rica and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Detroit Cobras to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Q and Not U,
The Monochrome Set,
Boredoms,
Joe Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang of Four,
Gang Starr,
Bad Manners,
Banda Bassotti,
John Foxx,
Steve Hackett,
Pussy Galore,
The Vogues,
Lalo Schifrin,
Howard Jones,
X-101,
Reuben Wilson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Graham Central Station,
Silicon Teens,
Sarah Menescal,
Josef K,
Nirvana,
OOIOO,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Knickerbockers,
Index,
Kayak,
T. Rex,
China Crisis,
Tears for Fears,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Roxy Music,
Crime,
Dennis Brown,
The Index,
Deepchord,
Tim Buckley,
Chris & Cosey,
Spoonie Gee,
The Grass Roots,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Busters,
The Walker Brothers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jawbox,
Bizarre Inc.,
Deakin,
cv313,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Procol Harum,
Lower 48,
Maleditus Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pere Ubu,
Camouflage,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.