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 Guyana and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Liliput to the dance 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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Rotary Connection,
Donny Hathaway,
Sight & Sound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hardrive,
U.S. Maple,
The Gap Band,
Animal Collective,
The Sound,
Hashim,
Ludus,
Easy Going,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Underground Resistance,
Radiohead,
New Age Steppers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tres Demented,
Blossom Toes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Adolescents,
Interpol,
kango's stein massive,
Amon Düül II,
MDC,
Tom Boy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kaleidoscope,
The Blackbyrds,
Mantronix,
Monks,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Wally Richardson,
Yaz,
The Real Kids,
Saccharine Trust,
Intrusion,
Con Funk Shun,
Zero Boys,
the Normal,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Reed,
Danielle Patucci,
Darondo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Qualms,
Eli Mardock,
Reagan Youth,
The Residents,
The Smiths,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ossler,
Scientists,
June Days,
New York Dolls,
Little Man,
Wire,
The Black Dice,
the Slits,
Nico,
Delta 5,
The Kinks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.