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 Luxembourg and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 Oblivians to the electroclash 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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Gap Band,
Metal Thangz,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Trojans,
Flipper,
Radiohead,
Harmonia,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alton Ellis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Harry Pussy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Roxy Music,
Howard Jones,
Gregory Isaacs,
Soul II Soul,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Fall,
Cecil Taylor,
Ralphi Rosario,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fat Boys,
Hardrive,
The Blackbyrds,
Boredoms,
Todd Rundgren,
Supertramp,
Barrington Levy,
Tubeway Army,
LL Cool J,
The Dirtbombs,
X-101,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kenny Larkin,
The Happenings,
Camberwell Now,
Glenn Branca,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Yazoo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bizarre Inc.,
These Immortal Souls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Danielle Patucci,
Scratch Acid,
Prince Buster,
Crime,
Andrew Hill,
Black Flag,
Patti Smith,
Pharoah Sanders,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kas Product,
Rufus Thomas,
The New Christs,
Banda Bassotti,
DNA,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.