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 Moldova and from Woodstock.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Germs to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joyce Sims,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
La Düsseldorf,
The Flesh Eaters,
Don Cherry,
The Leaves,
Joe Finger,
Newcleus,
kango's stein massive,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Porter Ricks,
Accadde A,
MDC,
Spoonie Gee,
Susan Cadogan,
Ituana,
The Misunderstood,
The Golliwogs,
Guru Guru,
Jacques Brel,
Underground Resistance,
Nirvana,
Scan 7,
Ossler,
Yusef Lateef,
Marine Girls,
Sister Nancy,
Icehouse,
Nico,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Association,
Sandy B,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fugazi,
Gastr Del Sol,
Donald Byrd,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Curtis Mayfield,
Magma,
Y Pants,
cv313,
The Offenders,
Chris Corsano,
Quantec,
Erykah Badu,
The Invisible,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Jeff Mills,
James White and The Blacks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jimmy McGriff,
Althea and Donna,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cymande,
Mars,
R.M.O.,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.