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 Ukraine and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 La Düsseldorf to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Model 500,
Minny Pops,
PIL,
Idris Muhammad,
Gichy Dan,
Donny Hathaway,
Davy DMX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Drexciya,
Crash Course in Science,
Reuben Wilson,
Scratch Acid,
The Fall,
The Gun Club,
The Residents,
Sam Rivers,
Severed Heads,
Underground Resistance,
Barbara Tucker,
Agitation Free,
The Grass Roots,
Qualms,
Cymande,
Moss Icon,
Bill Wells,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Johnny Clarke,
Quando Quango,
Excepter,
Chris Corsano,
The Star Department,
Television,
Iggy Pop,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mo-Dettes,
The Litter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Slits,
DJ Sneak,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rakim,
Black Moon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Junior Murvin,
Cheater Slicks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Soft Cell,
Lalo Schifrin,
48th St. Collective,
John Cale,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Charles Mingus,
Eli Mardock,
Youth Brigade,
The Modern Lovers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.