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 Uganda and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 snare 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 Vainqueur to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
Adolescents,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
New Age Steppers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dual Sessions,
Grauzone,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Suicide,
The Slits,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kayak,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Moebius,
The United States of America,
Motorama,
The Last Poets,
Lou Reed,
Mantronix,
Prince Buster,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tommy Roe,
Depeche Mode,
Donald Byrd,
David Axelrod,
Slick Rick,
Max Romeo,
Chris Corsano,
Ten City,
Bootsy Collins,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sugar Minott,
The Sound,
The Tremeloes,
Crime,
Nick Fraelich,
10cc,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lucky Dragons,
Scratch Acid,
Television,
The American Breed,
Nils Olav,
Pussy Galore,
Young Marble Giants,
Subhumans,
Faraquet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Barracudas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
H. Thieme,
Bad Manners,
Unwound,
The Dead C,
The Knickerbockers,
Robert Hood,
JFA,
Masters at Work,
Ohio Players,
The Vogues,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.