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 Indonesia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 organ 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the rock 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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Ohio Players,
David Axelrod,
The Moleskins,
Eurythmics,
The Beau Brummels,
Hot Snakes,
Brand Nubian,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Outsiders,
Ronnie Foster,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scrapy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Avey Tare,
The Zeros,
Eric Dolphy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
This Heat,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Blues Magoos,
The J.B.'s,
Trumans Water,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Audionom,
Kayak,
Barry Ungar,
Unwound,
Ash Ra Tempel,
PIL,
Desert Stars,
New Age Steppers,
the Germs,
Sarah Menescal,
The Sound,
Joe Smooth,
Drive Like Jehu,
Das Ding,
Suicide,
Mo-Dettes,
Leonard Cohen,
Lakeside,
Man Parrish,
Rakim,
X-102,
Ituana,
Peter and Kerry,
Sight & Sound,
the Swans,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Robert Hood,
the Sonics,
Bluetip,
Janne Schatter,
New Order,
Cluster,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Charles Mingus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.