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 Senegal and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Surgeon to the grunge 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Bluetip,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stetsasonic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dennis Brown,
Television Personalities,
Don Cherry,
Throbbing Gristle,
June Days,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Monochrome Set,
Slick Rick,
Kenny Larkin,
Lakeside,
John Holt,
Albert Ayler,
Bobby Byrd,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Gories,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Skaos,
Country Teasers,
the Sonics,
L. Decosne,
Sex Pistols,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kurtis Blow,
James White and The Blacks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Babytalk,
Fatback Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
Youth Brigade,
Kaleidoscope,
Mad Mike,
Trumans Water,
Qualms,
Theoretical Girls,
Aural Exciters,
Dark Day,
Quadrant,
Brass Construction,
The Toasters,
Robert Hood,
Joe Finger,
Bob Dylan,
Prince Buster,
The Raincoats,
This Heat,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Happenings,
Gang Green,
Technova,
The Doobie Brothers,
Erykah Badu,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.