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 Guinea and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Moss Icon to the funk 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Black Dice,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Iggy Pop,
Model 500,
Mantronix,
Surgeon,
Interpol,
In Retrospect,
Black Bananas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faust,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
L. Decosne,
Television Personalities,
New Age Steppers,
Eli Mardock,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Human League,
Dark Day,
Little Man,
Nation of Ulysses,
AZ,
Sugar Minott,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bill Wells,
Danielle Patucci,
Aloha Tigers,
Juan Atkins,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sixth Finger,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Fuzztones,
kango's stein massive,
The Wake,
The Durutti Column,
Lou Reed,
Todd Rundgren,
Bluetip,
The Mojo Men,
Kool Moe Dee,
Grauzone,
Marvin Gaye,
The Walker Brothers,
Guru Guru,
The United States of America,
DJ Style,
Soul II Soul,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ralphi Rosario,
Supertramp,
Junior Murvin,
Los Fastidios,
the Soft Cell,
Graham Central Station,
Silicon Teens,
Susan Cadogan,
Duran Duran,
T. Rex,
Yusef Lateef,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.