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 Tuvalu and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Mary Jane Girls to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Birthday Party,
Cybotron,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Marine Girls,
Marvin Gaye,
UT,
The Leaves,
the Association,
KRS-One,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Half Japanese,
Agent Orange,
Thompson Twins,
Charles Mingus,
Television,
David McCallum,
Glenn Branca,
The Trojans,
Essential Logic,
Procol Harum,
The Grass Roots,
Saccharine Trust,
PIL,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bad Manners,
Black Moon,
Colin Newman,
Alice Coltrane,
Bill Wells,
Grauzone,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soul II Soul,
Black Flag,
Oneida,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ultravox,
Average White Band,
Minny Pops,
Amazonics,
Roy Ayers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tubeway Army,
Letta Mbulu,
The Raincoats,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Swell Maps,
The Victims,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Arthur Verocai,
The Black Dice,
Crispy Ambulance,
Malaria!,
Das Ding,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.