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 El Salvador and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Arcadia to the rock 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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
The Human League,
The New Christs,
Andrew Hill,
The Blues Magoos,
Al Stewart,
Freddie Wadling,
10cc,
Joy Division,
Eurythmics,
Wings,
Negative Approach,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Zero Boys,
KRS-One,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fat Boys,
Outsiders,
Motorama,
Mission of Burma,
the Human League,
Skriet,
Pulsallama,
This Heat,
Fifty Foot Hose,
X-Ray Spex,
The Neon Judgement,
Fugazi,
Dual Sessions,
Charles Mingus,
Ice-T,
Whodini,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tomorrow,
Public Enemy,
Reagan Youth,
Robert Wyatt,
Mark Hollis,
The Fugs,
Soul II Soul,
The Walker Brothers,
John Lydon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Shuggie Otis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kerri Chandler,
The Electric Prunes,
Heaven 17,
The Detroit Cobras,
Nik Kershaw,
James White and The Blacks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Simply Red,
Junior Murvin,
Neu!,
The Litter,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Gories,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.