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 Andorra and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Skarface 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 The Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chris Corsano,
The Zeros,
K-Klass,
MDC,
Johnny Clarke,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Easy Going,
Barry Ungar,
Minor Threat,
Average White Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kerri Chandler,
Blake Baxter,
Sonic Youth,
Brand Nubian,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pantaleimon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Von Mondo,
Arthur Verocai,
PIL,
Aaron Thompson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Fela Kuti,
Black Moon,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Loose Ends,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bill Near,
Soft Machine,
Cabaret Voltaire,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Black Flag,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mr. Review,
Theoretical Girls,
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lyres,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Unwound,
Ohio Players,
Audionom,
Mad Mike,
Japan,
Eli Mardock,
Tomorrow,
Kurtis Blow,
Ash Ra Tempel,
ABC,
Yusef Lateef,
Cybotron,
Radio Birdman,
Babytalk,
Liliput,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.