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 Equatorial Guinea and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Joy Division to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
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,
Ituana,
World's Most,
The Motions,
CMW,
Ossler,
Massinfluence,
PIL,
Harry Pussy,
Chris & Cosey,
Quando Quango,
Patti Smith,
Tommy Roe,
Second Layer,
Mo-Dettes,
Black Pus,
Todd Terry,
Charles Mingus,
Suicide,
These Immortal Souls,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jandek,
Kayak,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
David McCallum,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Human League,
Cymande,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eric Copeland,
John Foxx,
Liliput,
Oblivians,
the Germs,
Hardrive,
The J.B.'s,
Y Pants,
Pulsallama,
Alice Coltrane,
Kerri Chandler,
Cameo,
Siglo XX,
The Beau Brummels,
Grauzone,
Kool Moe Dee,
Icehouse,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Surgeon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pantaleimon,
Wire,
Terrestrial Tones,
Darondo,
The Red Krayola,
Sällskapet,
Reagan Youth,
Camouflage,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.