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 Montenegro and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 sitar 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 Nik Kershaw to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Sugar Minott,
The Monochrome Set,
Hasil Adkins,
Basic Channel,
10cc,
Bobby Byrd,
Arcadia,
Reuben Wilson,
L. Decosne,
The Pretty Things,
The Alarm Clocks,
Joe Finger,
Sun City Girls,
Crime,
Underground Resistance,
Camberwell Now,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Public Enemy,
Suicide,
the Sonics,
MDC,
Erykah Badu,
Tom Boy,
The Zeros,
The Offenders,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Deepchord,
Second Layer,
Roxette,
The Move,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Skatalites,
Maleditus Sound,
Harmonia,
The Fugs,
Robert Hood,
Godley & Creme,
Morten Harket,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Slits,
Malaria!,
Tommy Roe,
48th St. Collective,
Mark Hollis,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Birthday Party,
Desert Stars,
The Monks,
Unwound,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Alison Limerick,
Nik Kershaw,
Kerrie Biddell,
Stetsasonic,
X-102,
Flipper,
Nas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Swans,
The Red Krayola,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.