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 Zimbabwe and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Minutemen to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Ohio Players,
Eric B and Rakim,
Boredoms,
Gastr Del Sol,
Nas,
Bobby Womack,
Harmonia,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Slits,
Ralphi Rosario,
Organ,
Soft Machine,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Cowsills,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
New Age Steppers,
The Monks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rakim,
Fatback Band,
The Durutti Column,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Raincoats,
The Fortunes,
Nico,
Mr. Review,
The Dead C,
Heaven 17,
Marcia Griffiths,
U.S. Maple,
Kaleidoscope,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Hasil Adkins,
Letta Mbulu,
The Wake,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Interpol,
Eyeless In Gaza,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sex Pistols,
Robert Wyatt,
The Moleskins,
Funky Four + One,
Crime,
Stockholm Monsters,
Andrew Hill,
Livin' Joy,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Sonics,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ten City,
Peter & Gordon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Animal Collective,
Public Enemy,
Supertramp,
Anthony Braxton,
Chris Corsano,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.