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 Spain and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 the Germs to the rock 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 The Sisters of Mercy. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Zero Boys,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hashim,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Avey Tare,
Hardrive,
Khruangbin,
John Holt,
The Gap Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobby Womack,
Hot Snakes,
Sonic Youth,
Archie Shepp,
Arab on Radar,
The Angels of Light,
Drive Like Jehu,
Shoche,
The Motions,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bauhaus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sly & The Family Stone,
48th St. Collective,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Organ,
Warsaw,
Procol Harum,
Scott Walker,
The Red Krayola,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Neil Young,
Cecil Taylor,
Robert Wyatt,
Yazoo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Public Image Ltd.,
This Heat,
Don Cherry,
Chrome,
Mars,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Blues Magoos,
The Gories,
Wings,
Gil Scott Heron,
kango's stein massive,
John Cale,
Kaleidoscope,
Groovy Waters,
Spoonie Gee,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Josef K,
Delon & Dalcan,
Trumans Water,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Patti Smith,
Nirvana,
Roxette,
Quadrant,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.