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 Armenia and from Beijing.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Robert Hood to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James White and The Blacks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Connie Case,
Unwound,
Bill Wells,
Dual Sessions,
Brick,
Young Marble Giants,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Zero Boys,
Malaria!,
Liliput,
Moss Icon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Eden Ahbez,
Lungfish,
Pere Ubu,
Scientists,
Average White Band,
David McCallum,
June Days,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ice-T,
Freddie Wadling,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pet Shop Boys,
Erykah Badu,
Iggy Pop,
Sight & Sound,
Nas,
Thee Headcoats,
Hashim,
Ornette Coleman,
Lee Hazlewood,
Can,
Howard Jones,
Faust,
The Pop Group,
Dave Gahan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Drexciya,
H. Thieme,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Infiniti,
This Heat,
Gregory Isaacs,
Youth Brigade,
The Techniques,
Sugar Minott,
Quantec,
The Birthday Party,
Technova,
Spandau Ballet,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scrapy,
The Fuzztones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Piero Umiliani,
Sam Rivers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.