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 Serbia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Ice-T to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantaleimon,
Dual Sessions,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sällskapet,
the Germs,
The Doors,
The Doobie Brothers,
Intrusion,
Faust,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Move,
Yellowson,
Peter & Gordon,
Subhumans,
The Standells,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Normal,
The Gap Band,
Amazonics,
the Swans,
Gabor Szabo,
Dead Boys,
Rosa Yemen,
The Searchers,
The Fortunes,
The Stooges,
It's A Beautiful Day,
La Düsseldorf,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bobby Byrd,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fatback Band,
Electric Prunes,
The Pretty Things,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mark Hollis,
The Gories,
Barry Ungar,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
David Axelrod,
Boogie Down Productions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
L. Decosne,
The Count Five,
a-ha,
Popol Vuh,
This Heat,
Chris & Cosey,
Lakeside,
Los Fastidios,
Soul II Soul,
Moss Icon,
Eden Ahbez,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rakim,
Skriet,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.