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 Australia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Doors to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
New Order,
The Gun Club,
Sound Behaviour,
Agitation Free,
Soul Sonic Force,
Moss Icon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ice-T,
Soulsonic Force,
Lungfish,
Alphaville,
Easy Going,
Nas,
Nick Fraelich,
Peter and Kerry,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Andrew Hill,
L. Decosne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Quantec,
Crooked Eye,
CMW,
David Axelrod,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Pus,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Swell Maps,
Gregory Isaacs,
Tomorrow,
Au Pairs,
LL Cool J,
Khruangbin,
Dead Boys,
Skriet,
Alice Coltrane,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fatback Band,
Neil Young,
Jeff Lynne,
Glambeats Corp.,
Depeche Mode,
Monks,
Todd Rundgren,
Mary Jane Girls,
Loose Ends,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sister Nancy,
Symarip,
Bootsy Collins,
Marine Girls,
the Sonics,
Lucky Dragons,
The Blackbyrds,
Black Moon,
Public Enemy,
Delta 5,
Derrick Morgan,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.