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 Sierra Leone and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Stetsasonic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
ABC,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fatback Band,
Schoolly D,
Sound Behaviour,
Bauhaus,
Gang Gang Dance,
Howard Jones,
ABBA,
Chris Corsano,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lindisfarne,
Sister Nancy,
Matthew Bourne,
Tim Buckley,
Nirvana,
Connie Case,
10cc,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Cure,
Mark Hollis,
Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bob Dylan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Silicon Teens,
Tropical Tobacco,
Magazine,
Hasil Adkins,
Smog,
Yellowson,
Sex Pistols,
Sam Rivers,
Minny Pops,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fat Boys,
Depeche Mode,
The Divine Comedy,
Nik Kershaw,
Deakin,
Q65,
The Invisible,
The New Christs,
The Leaves,
D'Angelo,
The Golliwogs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Fuzztones,
The Toasters,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Blackbyrds,
The Busters,
Flash Fearless,
Pantytec,
Desert Stars,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sugar Minott,
The Detroit Cobras,
Minnie Riperton,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.