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 Samoa and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Cure to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Hasil Adkins,
Fela Kuti,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Angels of Light,
Smog,
The Detroit Cobras,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Freddie Wadling,
Shoche,
Max Romeo,
Black Bananas,
The Blackbyrds,
The Fire Engines,
Rapeman,
The Techniques,
Subhumans,
Alton Ellis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lakeside,
Jawbox,
Bluetip,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Television,
Rufus Thomas,
Joyce Sims,
Camberwell Now,
Aloha Tigers,
Yusef Lateef,
The Fall,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fat Boys,
These Immortal Souls,
Flash Fearless,
The Kinks,
L. Decosne,
ABBA,
Joe Finger,
The Cowsills,
The Smoke,
Tim Buckley,
The Young Rascals,
Tomorrow,
The Moleskins,
Amon Düül,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Al Stewart,
Trumans Water,
F. McDonald,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marvin Gaye,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Gladiators,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Audionom,
Leonard Cohen,
The Toasters,
Japan,
The Velvet Underground,
Jandek,
The Standells,
Nico,
New Age Steppers,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.