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 Zambia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 snare 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 John Coltrane to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum 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 oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Loose Ends,
Cluster,
Gang Starr,
Kurtis Blow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Human League,
Kas Product,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eric B and Rakim,
Funky Four + One,
Pussy Galore,
Flamin' Groovies,
Qualms,
Symarip,
The Walker Brothers,
Nils Olav,
The Victims,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Minutemen,
Sex Pistols,
Youth Brigade,
Minnie Riperton,
Flipper,
Brass Construction,
John Coltrane,
Donald Byrd,
Subhumans,
Chris Corsano,
Delon & Dalcan,
Absolute Body Control,
Mantronix,
The Slackers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Josef K,
Surgeon,
Y Pants,
Country Teasers,
Agitation Free,
Harpers Bizarre,
Japan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sexual Harrassment,
D'Angelo,
The Human League,
Leonard Cohen,
Von Mondo,
KRS-One,
James White and The Blacks,
Sandy B,
Buzzcocks,
Monks,
Pulsallama,
kango's stein massive,
ABBA,
June Days,
The Toasters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Negative Approach,
Massinfluence,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.