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 Antigua and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rapeman to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Joe Finger,
The Count Five,
Los Fastidios,
Scratch Acid,
The New Christs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sugar Minott,
Yazoo,
The Gladiators,
Make Up,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Flag,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Cowsills,
John Holt,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cal Tjader,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cramps,
Judy Mowatt,
Al Stewart,
The J.B.'s,
the Swans,
Magazine,
The Stooges,
Spandau Ballet,
Matthew Halsall,
Boredoms,
The Black Dice,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gang Green,
Popol Vuh,
New Age Steppers,
Morten Harket,
The Fortunes,
Warren Ellis,
ABC,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fugazi,
Mars,
Flipper,
Gregory Isaacs,
Amazonics,
Brand Nubian,
Sonic Youth,
Derrick Morgan,
The Searchers,
The Monochrome Set,
Iggy Pop,
Marmalade,
The Toasters,
Metal Thangz,
D'Angelo,
Icehouse,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tommy Roe,
Eurythmics,
The Knickerbockers,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.