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 Jordan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Television to the grunge 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Funky Four + One,
Hashim,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James White and The Blacks,
Faraquet,
The Happenings,
X-102,
The Fugs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Television,
Nas,
the Slits,
Joy Division,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cymande,
D'Angelo,
Derrick May,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DNA,
Heaven 17,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jawbox,
cv313,
Organ,
Black Pus,
The Fortunes,
Terry Callier,
Flipper,
The Flesh Eaters,
Marine Girls,
Negative Approach,
Bobby Womack,
The Grass Roots,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dawn Penn,
Duran Duran,
Fat Boys,
Little Man,
Chris Corsano,
Tim Buckley,
Con Funk Shun,
Byron Stingily,
The Black Dice,
T.S.O.L.,
Drexciya,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
ABBA,
The Real Kids,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sparks,
Ossler,
B.T. Express,
Qualms,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Sonics,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Mummies,
Alison Limerick,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.