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 Djibouti and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Taipei.
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 linndrum 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 the Germs to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Beau Brummels record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Matthew Halsall,
Clear Light,
Surgeon,
Lou Christie,
Kerri Chandler,
Cymande,
Fluxion,
Pole,
The Stooges,
Massinfluence,
The Last Poets,
Marmalade,
Thee Headcoats,
Bobby Sherman,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Residents,
Funky Four + One,
OOIOO,
Iggy Pop,
T.S.O.L.,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
These Immortal Souls,
The Velvet Underground,
Wally Richardson,
Basic Channel,
Sarah Menescal,
Amon Düül II,
Slave,
Blancmange,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Main Source,
Tim Buckley,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Desert Stars,
Soft Cell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Skaos,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sandy B,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Unwound,
Los Fastidios,
The Count Five,
The Cramps,
Electric Prunes,
Magazine,
Tropical Tobacco,
L. Decosne,
Joey Negro,
Davy DMX,
Tomorrow,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.