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 Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 Ice-T to the grunge 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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Minny Pops,
Peter & Gordon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joy Division,
Kenny Larkin,
Carl Craig,
the Normal,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
David McCallum,
Loose Ends,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fear,
Niagra,
Pierre Henry,
Arthur Verocai,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ponytail,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Warsaw,
Bill Near,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Moebius,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pantaleimon,
Zapp,
Roxy Music,
Country Teasers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Silicon Teens,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ultra Naté,
Excepter,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Toasters,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lucky Dragons,
Pere Ubu,
The Slackers,
Neil Young,
John Lydon,
Radio Birdman,
Dennis Brown,
The Blackbyrds,
The Sound,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
World's Most,
Bootsy Collins,
Interpol,
Yusef Lateef,
Mantronix,
Magma,
Wire,
Lungfish,
New Age Steppers,
Motorama,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.