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 St Lucia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Delhi.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 Michelle Simonal to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Q and Not U,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Remains,
Neu!,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Sonics,
Massinfluence,
the Human League,
The Black Dice,
Shoche,
Crime,
The J.B.'s,
KRS-One,
Gichy Dan,
Glenn Branca,
Oneida,
Symarip,
Barbara Tucker,
The Tremeloes,
The Gap Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Negative Approach,
Slick Rick,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Leaves,
Rapeman,
World's Most,
Sonny Sharrock,
Robert Görl,
Wolf Eyes,
Monks,
Das Ding,
Animal Collective,
The Blackbyrds,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fear,
Nick Fraelich,
Faraquet,
John Holt,
Fluxion,
Delta 5,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Minnie Riperton,
Marc Almond,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pantytec,
David Bowie,
The Victims,
Minor Threat,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brass Construction,
The Monochrome Set,
Sixth Finger,
Sun Ra,
Godley & Creme,
Rakim,
Archie Shepp,
The Offenders,
Leonard Cohen,
Nico,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.