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 Burkina and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Golliwogs to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
The Saints,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare,
Soft Machine,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Stooges,
The Seeds,
The Misunderstood,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cameo,
L. Decosne,
the Soft Cell,
Cymande,
Television,
Yusef Lateef,
Sight & Sound,
Pantytec,
Pagans,
Blancmange,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Velvet Underground,
Cybotron,
Ituana,
Ken Boothe,
Nico,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Anakelly,
Metal Thangz,
Sarah Menescal,
Roger Hodgson,
Kenny Larkin,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Chrome,
Janne Schatter,
Tropical Tobacco,
Schoolly D,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joe Smooth,
Jacob Miller,
Blake Baxter,
Shoche,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Görl,
The Techniques,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Donald Byrd,
The American Breed,
Morten Harket,
Hasil Adkins,
Max Romeo,
Isaac Hayes,
Howard Jones,
10cc,
The Cowsills,
The Smoke,
Symarip,
Nirvana,
Black Flag,
D'Angelo,
Soft Cell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.