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 Slovenia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Youth Brigade to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ponytail,
Sound Behaviour,
Joe Smooth,
Vladislav Delay,
ABC,
Yusef Lateef,
The Red Krayola,
Youth Brigade,
Pagans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Masters at Work,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Gun Club,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The J.B.'s,
Eurythmics,
Joey Negro,
Visage,
Eve St. Jones,
Arab on Radar,
Stetsasonic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Absolute Body Control,
Porter Ricks,
Blossom Toes,
Rapeman,
Skaos,
These Immortal Souls,
The Offenders,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Au Pairs,
EPMD,
Grey Daturas,
Ronnie Foster,
Little Man,
Lower 48,
Cecil Taylor,
Stiv Bators,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scrapy,
Guru Guru,
Rakim,
DJ Sneak,
Joy Division,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fat Boys,
The Young Rascals,
La Düsseldorf,
Monolake,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Kinks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang of Four,
U.S. Maple,
Todd Rundgren,
the Fania All-Stars,
Donny Hathaway,
Man Parrish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pulsallama,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.