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 Malta and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 cv313 to the rock 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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
Youth Brigade,
Metal Thangz,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cybotron,
Brothers Johnson,
Alison Limerick,
Q and Not U,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
kango's stein massive,
Minny Pops,
This Heat,
Pere Ubu,
Marine Girls,
EPMD,
Robert Görl,
Danielle Patucci,
Echospace,
Gabor Szabo,
48th St. Collective,
The Standells,
The Alarm Clocks,
Saccharine Trust,
CMW,
Subhumans,
Simply Red,
The Happenings,
Basic Channel,
Kerri Chandler,
Arcadia,
Idris Muhammad,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Excepter,
Barrington Levy,
Lyres,
Jesper Dahlback,
Oneida,
The Electric Prunes,
MDC,
Duran Duran,
Ludus,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Moody Blues,
Essential Logic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Carl Craig,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Monolake,
The Monochrome Set,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gang of Four,
the Sonics,
Ronan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Wake,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Siglo XX,
The Saints,
The Offenders,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.