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 Romania and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 synthesizer 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 LL Cool J to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Pop Group,
Goldenarms,
Blossom Toes,
Rites of Spring,
Sandy B,
Barrington Levy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Main Source,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lou Reed,
John Foxx,
New York Dolls,
Sound Behaviour,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Letta Mbulu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Animal Collective,
Clear Light,
The Gories,
Easy Going,
Barbara Tucker,
Motorama,
Popol Vuh,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
A Certain Ratio,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
This Heat,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kas Product,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Matthew Bourne,
Sugar Minott,
Average White Band,
Thompson Twins,
Eurythmics,
Oneida,
Spoonie Gee,
Theoretical Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Von Mondo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kayak,
The Cramps,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Boogie Down Productions,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Vainqueur,
Groovy Waters,
Flipper,
Oblivians,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sun Ra,
Maurizio,
The Human League,
Black Flag,
The Evens,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.