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 Guinea and from Calgary.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Tears for Fears to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Sällskapet,
Ronan,
Pylon,
The Real Kids,
Half Japanese,
Hoover,
Gregory Isaacs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mad Mike,
Jacques Brel,
Lee Hazlewood,
Grauzone,
Delta 5,
Con Funk Shun,
Babytalk,
The Human League,
Ultimate Spinach,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Grey Daturas,
Tubeway Army,
Morten Harket,
Roxy Music,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Moleskins,
Byron Stingily,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barbara Tucker,
The United States of America,
Basic Channel,
Terry Callier,
Sight & Sound,
Severed Heads,
Nik Kershaw,
Inner City,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Franke,
Fugazi,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Radiopuhelimet,
JFA,
The Cowsills,
The Slackers,
Eli Mardock,
Hardrive,
Masters at Work,
Barrington Levy,
Cecil Taylor,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Fugs,
Amazonics,
the Association,
Michelle Simonal,
UT,
Zero Boys,
Dawn Penn,
Negative Approach,
AZ,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.