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 Peru and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Gang of Four to the techno 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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
The Techniques,
The Remains,
a-ha,
Flash Fearless,
Tres Demented,
E-Dancer,
Scientists,
Lakeside,
Royal Trux,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pulsallama,
Sly & The Family Stone,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Tim Buckley,
Howard Jones,
Eurythmics,
Pussy Galore,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Fuzztones,
Ken Boothe,
Blossom Toes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Laurel Aitken,
Q and Not U,
Nico,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bizarre Inc.,
Malaria!,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Womack,
Bobby Byrd,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Gap Band,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dawn Penn,
the Germs,
Danielle Patucci,
Dave Gahan,
Zero Boys,
Sister Nancy,
Rites of Spring,
The Fall,
Von Mondo,
48th St. Collective,
The Cowsills,
Wings,
Glambeats Corp.,
Clear Light,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Groovy Waters,
Roy Ayers,
Sex Pistols,
The Slits,
Crash Course in Science,
Second Layer,
Eric Dolphy,
Dark Day,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.