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 Algeria and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mad Mike to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Max Romeo,
Sound Behaviour,
Dawn Penn,
Index,
Leonard Cohen,
Crispy Ambulance,
Fat Boys,
Pagans,
Maurizio,
LL Cool J,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Flash Fearless,
Black Bananas,
Angry Samoans,
Spandau Ballet,
Mo-Dettes,
the Normal,
Technova,
The Raincoats,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Althea and Donna,
Tres Demented,
X-Ray Spex,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rapeman,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sarah Menescal,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Public Image Ltd.,
Monks,
Interpol,
Chrome,
The Stooges,
Royal Trux,
DNA,
The Zeros,
Schoolly D,
Sun City Girls,
T.S.O.L.,
Qualms,
Lightning Bolt,
Quadrant,
Guru Guru,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Public Enemy,
Joey Negro,
Kayak,
Mantronix,
Rod Modell,
Pussy Galore,
The Pop Group,
Wings,
Hasil Adkins,
ABC,
MC5,
Radiohead,
Sällskapet,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.