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 Woodstock.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Agitation Free to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
D'Angelo,
Subhumans,
Jandek,
Ice-T,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The New Christs,
Jerry's Kids,
Ten City,
Underground Resistance,
Flash Fearless,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Theoretical Girls,
The Stooges,
Josef K,
Anthony Braxton,
Amon Düül,
a-ha,
Simply Red,
Jawbox,
Man Parrish,
Tomorrow,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wings,
Terrestrial Tones,
Circle Jerks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Blues Magoos,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aloha Tigers,
Quando Quango,
Michelle Simonal,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Fall,
Nas,
The Misunderstood,
The Gun Club,
Laurel Aitken,
Rites of Spring,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
X-Ray Spex,
Quantec,
Scion,
The Real Kids,
Barbara Tucker,
Charles Mingus,
Accadde A,
Pere Ubu,
Buzzcocks,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Hood,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mantronix,
Lightning Bolt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
AZ,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.