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 Egypt and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 mellotron 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 R.M.O. to the jazz 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sexual Harrassment,
Monks,
The Move,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chris Corsano,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eddi Front,
The Mummies,
Roxette,
Gil Scott Heron,
Stereo Dub,
The Stooges,
Yellowson,
The Fall,
The Blackbyrds,
Skaos,
Cameo,
The Seeds,
Franke,
Pulsallama,
Skarface,
Visage,
Mark Hollis,
Niagra,
David Bowie,
The Litter,
Stiv Bators,
The Standells,
Scientists,
Warren Ellis,
Television Personalities,
Connie Case,
Popol Vuh,
Rotary Connection,
Circle Jerks,
Joe Finger,
Pierre Henry,
Fela Kuti,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Y Pants,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lakeside,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Zapp,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Erykah Badu,
Masters at Work,
Joe Smooth,
the Sonics,
Rapeman,
Kurtis Blow,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
T. Rex,
Michelle Simonal,
The Skatalites,
Neu!,
The Flesh Eaters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.