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 Korea South and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bizarre Inc. to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Iggy Pop,
Siglo XX,
Country Teasers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jeff Lynne,
Joy Division,
Toni Rubio,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Amazonics,
Gang Green,
Basic Channel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Silicon Teens,
Aswad,
The Music Machine,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Real Kids,
Ultravox,
Max Romeo,
Darondo,
Lou Christie,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kurtis Blow,
Crooked Eye,
Minnie Riperton,
Electric Prunes,
T.S.O.L.,
KRS-One,
Gong,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Star Department,
Rotary Connection,
Boredoms,
June Days,
Quando Quango,
The Five Americans,
Josef K,
Warsaw,
The Vogues,
The Velvet Underground,
Scrapy,
The Sonics,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ohio Players,
Janne Schatter,
Smog,
Pulsallama,
the Bar-Kays,
Aaron Thompson,
Outsiders,
The Alarm Clocks,
Derrick Morgan,
Saccharine Trust,
Agitation Free,
Glenn Branca,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kas Product,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.