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 Benin and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Soul Sonic Force to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Young Rascals,
Andrew Hill,
Silicon Teens,
Oneida,
The Associates,
Jacques Brel,
Magma,
Negative Approach,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Babytalk,
The Blackbyrds,
The Fugs,
Black Flag,
Parry Music,
Joy Division,
U.S. Maple,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Funkadelic,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lindisfarne,
Sexual Harrassment,
T. Rex,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
OOIOO,
Rakim,
The Birthday Party,
Sister Nancy,
Yellowson,
Marc Almond,
Rekid,
John Holt,
Ken Boothe,
The Cowsills,
Joey Negro,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sunsets and Hearts,
the Germs,
Black Moon,
Jimmy McGriff,
Stiv Bators,
Pylon,
Minor Threat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aloha Tigers,
Alphaville,
The Mojo Men,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Unrelated Segments,
Goldenarms,
Country Teasers,
Blossom Toes,
Sun City Girls,
Qualms,
X-102,
The Standells,
Prince Buster,
Ponytail,
The Misunderstood,
The Five Americans,
New Age Steppers,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.