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 Tunisia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 Sound Behaviour to the disco 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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barrington Levy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nas,
Siglo XX,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Pop Group,
Soulsonic Force,
Terry Callier,
The Toasters,
Rufus Thomas,
Television,
Tears for Fears,
Monks,
Second Layer,
The Star Department,
Depeche Mode,
Country Joe & The Fish,
OOIOO,
Khruangbin,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fear,
Danielle Patucci,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rekid,
48th St. Collective,
Index,
Joe Smooth,
Alison Limerick,
The Tremeloes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DJ Sneak,
Model 500,
JFA,
The Offenders,
Kerrie Biddell,
Al Stewart,
Quadrant,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Brothers Johnson,
Derrick May,
Bad Manners,
Procol Harum,
Shoche,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Blossom Toes,
Ralphi Rosario,
D'Angelo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Happenings,
Eden Ahbez,
Unrelated Segments,
Bauhaus,
Niagra,
Robert Görl,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bootsy Collins,
The American Breed,
Barbara Tucker,
Mr. Review,
Minny Pops,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Seeds,
Black Bananas,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.