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 Norway and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 In Retrospect to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Names. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Archie Shepp,
Nick Fraelich,
The Dead C,
Ralphi Rosario,
A Certain Ratio,
Absolute Body Control,
Camberwell Now,
The Detroit Cobras,
Stetsasonic,
E-Dancer,
Brothers Johnson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Birthday Party,
Fad Gadget,
Index,
Quadrant,
Altered Images,
Pole,
Sun City Girls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Alphaville,
The Techniques,
Bootsy Collins,
Half Japanese,
David Bowie,
Big Daddy Kane,
Model 500,
Amazonics,
Ronnie Foster,
Soul II Soul,
Scrapy,
Anakelly,
Chris Corsano,
Joensuu 1685,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Trojans,
The Moody Blues,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Hasil Adkins,
Terry Callier,
Silicon Teens,
Motorama,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Flipper,
Nils Olav,
The Happenings,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rotary Connection,
Mo-Dettes,
Franke,
Rakim,
Outsiders,
The Knickerbockers,
The Litter,
Howard Jones,
Monolake,
10cc,
Mad Mike,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.