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 Gabon and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Maurizio to the electroclash 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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultra Naté record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
In Retrospect,
Isaac Hayes,
Barry Ungar,
Cheater Slicks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bill Wells,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Frankie Knuckles,
Popol Vuh,
Marmalade,
Stereo Dub,
Pagans,
Blancmange,
Janne Schatter,
Lucky Dragons,
Piero Umiliani,
La Düsseldorf,
Von Mondo,
Newcleus,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Drexciya,
The Cure,
Idris Muhammad,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ultravox,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Wally Richardson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ultra Naté,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Searchers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roger Hodgson,
cv313,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Golliwogs,
the Human League,
Audionom,
Ultimate Spinach,
PIL,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rufus Thomas,
Curtis Mayfield,
X-101,
Sparks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
a-ha,
The Motions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jacques Brel,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tubeway Army,
The Litter,
Livin' Joy,
The United States of America,
Fear,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.