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 Dominican Republic and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Underground Resistance to the funk 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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dawn Penn,
Pantaleimon,
Von Mondo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boogie Down Productions,
The J.B.'s,
Fat Boys,
Pharoah Sanders,
Reuben Wilson,
Porter Ricks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Guru Guru,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Doors,
The Red Krayola,
The Mojo Men,
The Selecter,
Letta Mbulu,
Anthony Braxton,
Marc Almond,
Lalann,
Nas,
X-Ray Spex,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Offenders,
JFA,
Godley & Creme,
Lindisfarne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Foxx,
The United States of America,
John Lydon,
The Buckinghams,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
R.M.O.,
Darondo,
Ultra Naté,
The Vogues,
Absolute Body Control,
Howard Jones,
The Divine Comedy,
Soul II Soul,
Iggy Pop,
The Pretty Things,
Scratch Acid,
Sound Behaviour,
June Days,
Black Flag,
Pantytec,
Minutemen,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quando Quango,
The Barracudas,
Cybotron,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Joensuu 1685,
Hasil Adkins,
Deepchord,
Siglo XX,
Theoretical Girls,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.