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 Estonia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator 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 Stooges to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Siglo XX,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Parry Music,
Public Image Ltd.,
Livin' Joy,
Negative Approach,
Hot Snakes,
Yaz,
Alice Coltrane,
Fatback Band,
Au Pairs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bill Near,
Sällskapet,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nico,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bobby Sherman,
Pussy Galore,
Quantec,
Public Enemy,
Panda Bear,
The Slackers,
The Walker Brothers,
Buzzcocks,
Aloha Tigers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Shoche,
Eric Copeland,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Residents,
the Normal,
K-Klass,
The Vogues,
Eden Ahbez,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fluxion,
The Young Rascals,
Sexual Harrassment,
Moby Grape,
AZ,
Youth Brigade,
Max Romeo,
cv313,
Godley & Creme,
Bill Wells,
Audionom,
The Blues Magoos,
Carl Craig,
The Five Americans,
Janne Schatter,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Liliput,
the Swans,
Delta 5,
Gabor Szabo,
The Misunderstood,
Japan,
Danielle Patucci,
Scion,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.