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 Hungary and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the marimba 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 Joe Finger to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Freddie Wadling,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ponytail,
The Litter,
Rotary Connection,
Kaleidoscope,
Average White Band,
The Residents,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cal Tjader,
Roxy Music,
Oblivians,
Al Stewart,
Jerry's Kids,
KRS-One,
Radiohead,
Nas,
Kerrie Biddell,
Maleditus Sound,
John Cale,
The Move,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Animal Collective,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Knickerbockers,
These Immortal Souls,
Lalann,
Tears for Fears,
Yusef Lateef,
The Tremeloes,
Aloha Tigers,
Dawn Penn,
Underground Resistance,
The Flesh Eaters,
Neil Young,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Neon Judgement,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter and Kerry,
Country Teasers,
Thee Headcoats,
The Saints,
The Modern Lovers,
Section 25,
The Doors,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fall,
Los Fastidios,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Agitation Free,
Bluetip,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Wolf Eyes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Silicon Teens,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Kinks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Busters,
Lower 48,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.