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 Eritrea and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Bologna and Stockholm.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Vogues to the funk 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
The Cowsills,
Aaron Thompson,
The Smoke,
Albert Ayler,
Laurel Aitken,
Ponytail,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cabaret Voltaire,
DJ Style,
The Gap Band,
Metal Thangz,
Kas Product,
The Mojo Men,
Kurtis Blow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Neon Judgement,
The Golliwogs,
Eric Copeland,
Sister Nancy,
Malaria!,
Blancmange,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rotary Connection,
The Associates,
Rufus Thomas,
Patti Smith,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
a-ha,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Monolake,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Sonics,
Donny Hathaway,
Man Parrish,
Bush Tetras,
Hardrive,
Pylon,
The Cure,
Loose Ends,
The Flesh Eaters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Barracudas,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Skriet,
the Germs,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nico,
Spandau Ballet,
Susan Cadogan,
Eddi Front,
Easy Going,
Arab on Radar,
Moby Grape,
The United States of America,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.