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 Malawi and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Monochrome Set to the punk 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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Erykah Badu,
The Human League,
June of 44,
Agitation Free,
The Wake,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Walker Brothers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Warsaw,
Nik Kershaw,
Kool Moe Dee,
Visage,
Rites of Spring,
Ten City,
Moby Grape,
Arthur Verocai,
Amon Düül II,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Finger,
The Evens,
The Golliwogs,
Gang Starr,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pagans,
Stetsasonic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Minny Pops,
Clear Light,
Technova,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kurtis Blow,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fela Kuti,
Black Moon,
Grey Daturas,
Second Layer,
The New Christs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Move,
CMW,
The Blackbyrds,
Sexual Harrassment,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fad Gadget,
Qualms,
H. Thieme,
Babytalk,
Panda Bear,
Zero Boys,
Connie Case,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Judy Mowatt,
Mission of Burma,
Black Pus,
Inner City,
Fluxion,
Marmalade,
The Gories,
Drexciya,
Matthew Bourne,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.