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 San Marino and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Harry Pussy to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sixth Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terrestrial Tones,
The Vogues,
Amon Düül,
Sonic Youth,
Peter and Kerry,
The Barracudas,
Quando Quango,
Hasil Adkins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dennis Brown,
The Real Kids,
Erasure,
Man Parrish,
Yellowson,
Joy Division,
Scratch Acid,
Todd Terry,
Eden Ahbez,
Johnny Osbourne,
Moebius,
Roxy Music,
Wire,
Ohio Players,
The Motions,
Tommy Roe,
Second Layer,
Wasted Youth,
Minor Threat,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Schoolly D,
Scrapy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sonics,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minny Pops,
Sun City Girls,
Amon Düül II,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Y Pants,
Gastr Del Sol,
James White and The Blacks,
Essential Logic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Toni Rubio,
the Sonics,
Sällskapet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fluxion,
Stiv Bators,
Anakelly,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jacob Miller,
Gregory Isaacs,
Blancmange,
Ponytail,
Echospace,
David Axelrod,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Maurizio,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.