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 Oman and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Copenhagen.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Music Machine to the grunge 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
The Wake,
Howard Jones,
Deadbeat,
Pantaleimon,
Ten City,
Boogie Down Productions,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Danielle Patucci,
Chrome,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tropical Tobacco,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Standells,
Camberwell Now,
Electric Prunes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Agitation Free,
Buzzcocks,
Don Cherry,
Johnny Osbourne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Yusef Lateef,
Mo-Dettes,
Alison Limerick,
Kayak,
The Seeds,
The Mojo Men,
These Immortal Souls,
Hasil Adkins,
Tim Buckley,
Eddi Front,
Subhumans,
U.S. Maple,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jesper Dahlback,
Prince Buster,
The Electric Prunes,
Suicide,
Little Man,
Alton Ellis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kenny Larkin,
The Index,
Joe Smooth,
Tears for Fears,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scan 7,
Barrington Levy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fela Kuti,
Aaron Thompson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stetsasonic,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Fortunes,
Slick Rick,
The Gun Club,
Aural Exciters,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.