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 Turkmenistan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Alphaville to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soul Sonic Force,
Moby Grape,
Kas Product,
Kerri Chandler,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Spandau Ballet,
Negative Approach,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Johnny Clarke,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jeff Mills,
Sister Nancy,
Nik Kershaw,
Ludus,
Erykah Badu,
Reuben Wilson,
The Music Machine,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Magma,
Skaos,
Grauzone,
Dennis Brown,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Soul II Soul,
Organ,
Cal Tjader,
Swans,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Slits,
Radiohead,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sällskapet,
Fat Boys,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Matthew Bourne,
Maleditus Sound,
The Evens,
KRS-One,
Marc Almond,
Oneida,
Yellowson,
Quando Quango,
Jacques Brel,
Lalo Schifrin,
Moss Icon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jerry's Kids,
Black Moon,
Donny Hathaway,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sex Pistols,
Lightning Bolt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scan 7,
Hot Snakes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Traffic Nightmare,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.