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 Ireland and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 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 Jawbox to the techno 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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan 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?
Marc Almond,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lungfish,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sam Rivers,
Liliput,
Hot Snakes,
Intrusion,
Andrew Hill,
X-102,
Lucky Dragons,
Average White Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fluxion,
The Moody Blues,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobby Byrd,
R.M.O.,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kenny Larkin,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Davy DMX,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Prince Buster,
Joey Negro,
Chris Corsano,
Boredoms,
Wire,
Brand Nubian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soft Machine,
The Electric Prunes,
Glenn Branca,
X-101,
Chrome,
London Community Gospel Choir,
OOIOO,
Gong,
Judy Mowatt,
Scientists,
Glambeats Corp.,
Roy Ayers,
The Names,
Anakelly,
Pylon,
Easy Going,
Black Moon,
The Offenders,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nick Fraelich,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skarface,
The Gories,
Half Japanese,
Lower 48,
Eden Ahbez,
Ten City,
Iggy Pop,
Bizarre Inc.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Alton Ellis,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.