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 Solomon Islands and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gun Club to the dance 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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Althea and Donna,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Neil Young,
Pussy Galore,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tubeway Army,
Laurel Aitken,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tom Boy,
Scott Walker,
Blancmange,
Moebius,
Crime,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
Television Personalities,
Basic Channel,
Symarip,
Neu!,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kas Product,
Arthur Verocai,
Rekid,
The Pop Group,
New Order,
the Human League,
Sex Pistols,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Funky Four + One,
Lungfish,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ossler,
Little Man,
Marmalade,
Marine Girls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Simply Red,
Jeru the Damaja,
Joey Negro,
The Beau Brummels,
Rosa Yemen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
LL Cool J,
the Germs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barclay James Harvest,
Smog,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pierre Henry,
Kool Moe Dee,
U.S. Maple,
Ohio Players,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Second Layer,
Shoche,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric Copeland,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.