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 East Timor and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mumbai.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grunge 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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Spoonie Gee,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Suicide,
Minutemen,
World's Most,
Make Up,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Young Rascals,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sun City Girls,
Basic Channel,
Surgeon,
Franke,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pussy Galore,
Dead Boys,
Sex Pistols,
Circle Jerks,
Black Bananas,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grauzone,
Siglo XX,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marcia Griffiths,
Interpol,
The Zeros,
Sonic Youth,
Scion,
Vladislav Delay,
The Busters,
Tommy Roe,
Skaos,
Dennis Brown,
Michelle Simonal,
The Victims,
Anakelly,
Lightning Bolt,
Fear,
Charles Mingus,
Bluetip,
The Wake,
X-102,
ABBA,
Accadde A,
Black Sheep,
Tomorrow,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bob Dylan,
The Leaves,
The Doors,
Sight & Sound,
Reagan Youth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Magma,
Joyce Sims,
The Trojans,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.