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 Uganda and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sex Pistols to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Metal Thangz,
Brand Nubian,
Archie Shepp,
The Techniques,
Godley & Creme,
Lakeside,
KRS-One,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kayak,
The Move,
Amon Düül,
T. Rex,
Dawn Penn,
Kerri Chandler,
The Slits,
John Cale,
Barbara Tucker,
Sonic Youth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Black Dice,
Pierre Henry,
Bobby Sherman,
Lindisfarne,
Roxette,
The Human League,
Guru Guru,
Underground Resistance,
Danielle Patucci,
Nils Olav,
Rekid,
Nico,
ABC,
Dave Gahan,
The Happenings,
Rufus Thomas,
The Moleskins,
Sparks,
Vainqueur,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Blake Baxter,
Minutemen,
Lebanon Hanover,
Animal Collective,
X-101,
Supertramp,
Sight & Sound,
Siglo XX,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Make Up,
DNA,
Amon Düül II,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rakim,
Sound Behaviour,
Dead Boys,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.