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 Chile and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Minutemen to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Urselle,
Zero Boys,
Country Teasers,
Skarface,
The Music Machine,
The Dirtbombs,
H. Thieme,
Swell Maps,
Janne Schatter,
DJ Style,
The Fall,
The J.B.'s,
Davy DMX,
Grauzone,
Moby Grape,
Ohio Players,
LL Cool J,
Pharoah Sanders,
A Certain Ratio,
R.M.O.,
Sam Rivers,
The Mummies,
X-101,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Saccharine Trust,
Donny Hathaway,
Audionom,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Flesh Eaters,
Talk Talk,
The Five Americans,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Excepter,
The Real Kids,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sällskapet,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ten City,
John Cale,
The Doors,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Goldenarms,
David Bowie,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cymande,
Colin Newman,
FM Einheit,
Wasted Youth,
Delon & Dalcan,
Crime,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Stooges,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.