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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lille.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 Mission of Burma to the techno 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
Sonic Youth,
MDC,
The Divine Comedy,
Soft Cell,
Rufus Thomas,
Basic Channel,
Robert Hood,
Brick,
Man Eating Sloth,
Archie Shepp,
World's Most,
Mad Mike,
Kenny Larkin,
Stereo Dub,
Unwound,
The J.B.'s,
Nik Kershaw,
The Gap Band,
Blancmange,
The Gladiators,
Rod Modell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Unrelated Segments,
Al Stewart,
Ituana,
Freddie Wadling,
The Gories,
Kerri Chandler,
Monolake,
Eurythmics,
LL Cool J,
La Düsseldorf,
Yaz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Alphaville,
Negative Approach,
Sister Nancy,
The Walker Brothers,
Adolescents,
DJ Style,
Black Flag,
OOIOO,
Sun Ra,
Johnny Clarke,
Masters at Work,
Reuben Wilson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Neil Young,
Q65,
Big Daddy Kane,
Boredoms,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Hardrive,
The Saints,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mars,
Michelle Simonal,
Tim Buckley,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.