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 Bhutan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the techno 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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Patti Smith,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Roger Hodgson,
Eli Mardock,
Dual Sessions,
The Smiths,
Goldenarms,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Darondo,
The Slits,
Bob Dylan,
The Cowsills,
Dennis Brown,
Alphaville,
Fluxion,
Rites of Spring,
Archie Shepp,
Scan 7,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Adolescents,
Schoolly D,
Josef K,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wasted Youth,
The Sonics,
The Pop Group,
Arab on Radar,
The Real Kids,
The Black Dice,
The Victims,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rotary Connection,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
X-101,
Derrick May,
The Skatalites,
Grauzone,
The Count Five,
Gichy Dan,
Warren Ellis,
The Star Department,
CMW,
the Swans,
the Fania All-Stars,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
David Bowie,
Ronnie Foster,
Flamin' Groovies,
Symarip,
Maleditus Sound,
Deakin,
Underground Resistance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tears for Fears,
Lungfish,
Quantec,
Parry Music,
Mission of Burma,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.