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 Dominican Republic and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tehran.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ronan to the grunge 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang on a Can All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
UT,
Jeff Mills,
Glenn Branca,
Joensuu 1685,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Icehouse,
Minny Pops,
Newcleus,
Jacob Miller,
Anakelly,
Althea and Donna,
The Searchers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pantytec,
Camberwell Now,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dual Sessions,
Smog,
Bootsy Collins,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Funkadelic,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jawbox,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Raincoats,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cal Tjader,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Connie Case,
Eric B and Rakim,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Cure,
Tubeway Army,
Hashim,
Boogie Down Productions,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Quando Quango,
The J.B.'s,
The Zeros,
Soulsonic Force,
Nick Fraelich,
Hot Snakes,
Audionom,
Silicon Teens,
New York Dolls,
Q and Not U,
MDC,
Thompson Twins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pantaleimon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Bar-Kays,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Erykah Badu,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.