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 Iran and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Magazine to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott 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?
kango's stein massive,
Ultra Naté,
Hoover,
Joe Finger,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Young Rascals,
Rapeman,
Von Mondo,
Boredoms,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Brass Construction,
Flamin' Groovies,
Schoolly D,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sound Behaviour,
Main Source,
Davy DMX,
Sarah Menescal,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wally Richardson,
The Sonics,
The Detroit Cobras,
Arthur Verocai,
Monolake,
The Raincoats,
Kurtis Blow,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Japan,
Deakin,
K-Klass,
James White and The Blacks,
The Blackbyrds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dennis Brown,
CMW,
Section 25,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lalann,
Faust,
June Days,
John Coltrane,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Fania All-Stars,
Black Moon,
Yazoo,
Radiohead,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bauhaus,
Dark Day,
Dead Boys,
Gabor Szabo,
Fad Gadget,
Duran Duran,
Theoretical Girls,
Panda Bear,
Essential Logic,
Metal Thangz,
Pere Ubu,
The Gories,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Basic Channel,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.