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 Tanzania and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Remains to the techno 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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Barbara Tucker,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dead Boys,
The Fall,
Cybotron,
Danielle Patucci,
Bizarre Inc.,
Swell Maps,
Mantronix,
Japan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
D'Angelo,
Television,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Radiohead,
Supertramp,
Half Japanese,
Donny Hathaway,
The Beau Brummels,
Sugar Minott,
Davy DMX,
The United States of America,
Silicon Teens,
Peter and Kerry,
The Fire Engines,
Kenny Larkin,
Dennis Brown,
Model 500,
Banda Bassotti,
Faust,
Vladislav Delay,
Crooked Eye,
Ash Ra Tempel,
June of 44,
Avey Tare,
Angry Samoans,
Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Babytalk,
Altered Images,
Derrick May,
Harmonia,
B.T. Express,
Theoretical Girls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Goldenarms,
The Dead C,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Cal Tjader,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
X-Ray Spex,
Little Man,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Sonics,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sparks,
Pantaleimon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.