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 Belgium and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Negative Approach 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Nas,
Pulsallama,
Marine Girls,
Cheater Slicks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rapeman,
Unrelated Segments,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Golliwogs,
The Fuzztones,
Underground Resistance,
Gang Starr,
Camouflage,
The Zeros,
Ice-T,
The Trojans,
Joy Division,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Bananas,
CMW,
Kenny Larkin,
The Smiths,
Duran Duran,
Charles Mingus,
Roger Hodgson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Technova,
Ituana,
Roxy Music,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
June Days,
Tommy Roe,
The Selecter,
Gichy Dan,
Thompson Twins,
Man Eating Sloth,
Peter and Kerry,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Arthur Verocai,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Offenders,
The Blues Magoos,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eve St. Jones,
Aloha Tigers,
The Vogues,
Basic Channel,
Harry Pussy,
Outsiders,
Flamin' Groovies,
Interpol,
Loose Ends,
Au Pairs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
10cc,
Rosa Yemen,
The Real Kids,
Reagan Youth,
Mo-Dettes,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.