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 India and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 DJ Style to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Neu!,
10cc,
Basic Channel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Black Dice,
Thee Headcoats,
Mark Hollis,
John Holt,
The Standells,
Pussy Galore,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Black Flag,
Scratch Acid,
The Fall,
Electric Prunes,
Panda Bear,
Cal Tjader,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Victims,
Bronski Beat,
Lucky Dragons,
Swans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gabor Szabo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dark Day,
The Buckinghams,
Glenn Branca,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joe Smooth,
Derrick May,
The Selecter,
Kaleidoscope,
Flamin' Groovies,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Index,
Kayak,
Derrick Morgan,
Lakeside,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
China Crisis,
Skaos,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Das Ding,
Sugar Minott,
Roy Ayers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fluxion,
Pole,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Massinfluence,
Tubeway Army,
Black Pus,
Erykah Badu,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soul II Soul,
The Monochrome Set,
Don Cherry,
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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.