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 Vanuatu and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 theremin 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 Accadde A to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Interpol,
Stiv Bators,
Pulsallama,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Qualms,
Charles Mingus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Patti Smith,
Lightning Bolt,
Bill Wells,
Jeff Lynne,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Buzzcocks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fela Kuti,
Frankie Knuckles,
Underground Resistance,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
MDC,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Depeche Mode,
The Fuzztones,
Oblivians,
Clear Light,
The Remains,
Suburban Knight,
The Gories,
Jerry's Kids,
Wally Richardson,
Roy Ayers,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Beau Brummels,
A Certain Ratio,
Lyres,
Lou Christie,
The Doobie Brothers,
Barrington Levy,
Inner City,
Masters at Work,
Bluetip,
The Fall,
The Toasters,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cameo,
Gang of Four,
Procol Harum,
PIL,
Dawn Penn,
Trumans Water,
These Immortal Souls,
The Dead C,
Ludus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Adolescents,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Human League,
Agent Orange,
Echospace,
Nirvana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.