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 Korea South and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Sonic Youth to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Moebius,
Maurizio,
Erykah Badu,
Harry Pussy,
June Days,
Youth Brigade,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sarah Menescal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Count Five,
Black Sheep,
China Crisis,
Roy Ayers,
Lalann,
Swans,
Scratch Acid,
Inner City,
The Misunderstood,
The Fall,
Johnny Osbourne,
L. Decosne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Royal Trux,
Alison Limerick,
Circle Jerks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stiv Bators,
ABC,
Camberwell Now,
Lower 48,
The Techniques,
Fat Boys,
Alice Coltrane,
Soulsonic Force,
Charles Mingus,
Kerrie Biddell,
Suburban Knight,
Yellowson,
Rapeman,
Von Mondo,
In Retrospect,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Pop Group,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Warsaw,
Nas,
Alton Ellis,
DNA,
Reagan Youth,
New Age Steppers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jandek,
Mo-Dettes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Human League,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Red Krayola,
Kas Product,
cv313,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.