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 Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kool Moe Dee to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
The Shadows of Knight,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Aloha Tigers,
Max Romeo,
the Germs,
Minny Pops,
Skriet,
Don Cherry,
Jacob Miller,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yazoo,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ralphi Rosario,
Laurel Aitken,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crooked Eye,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hoover,
ABC,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
This Heat,
Frankie Knuckles,
Piero Umiliani,
Motorama,
Average White Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hasil Adkins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Japan,
Lalann,
John Foxx,
Terry Callier,
Wally Richardson,
Outsiders,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
MC5,
Donny Hathaway,
The Monochrome Set,
Maleditus Sound,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Kinks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roy Ayers,
Mark Hollis,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Count Five,
The Birthday Party,
Morten Harket,
The Red Krayola,
Los Fastidios,
Fugazi,
Cal Tjader,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
Shuggie Otis,
Skaos,
Patti Smith,
Boredoms,
Section 25,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.