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 Rwanda and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Leonard Cohen to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Aural Exciters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lou Reed,
Crash Course in Science,
The Young Rascals,
Erasure,
Saccharine Trust,
Maleditus Sound,
K-Klass,
Lightning Bolt,
the Germs,
Man Eating Sloth,
Fela Kuti,
John Lydon,
Ultravox,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
David Axelrod,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Funkadelic,
Little Man,
MDC,
Heaven 17,
The Knickerbockers,
The Techniques,
The Names,
Arthur Verocai,
Rotary Connection,
Marmalade,
Panda Bear,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Swans,
Drive Like Jehu,
Darondo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Association,
X-102,
Ice-T,
The Cowsills,
Unrelated Segments,
The Modern Lovers,
The Toasters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Blossom Toes,
Q65,
Byron Stingily,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Smoke,
Brand Nubian,
Vladislav Delay,
Quantec,
The Walker Brothers,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Invisible,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.