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 Greece and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 theremin 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 The Knickerbockers to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fad Gadget,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ludus,
Carl Craig,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Radiohead,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Fugs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Brass Construction,
UT,
Fat Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
Qualms,
Johnny Clarke,
Infiniti,
Nas,
Suicide,
The Slits,
Brand Nubian,
Lyres,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
John Coltrane,
Boredoms,
Sugar Minott,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Icehouse,
The Fall,
Magma,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
John Cale,
Henry Cow,
Lalann,
Agent Orange,
Interpol,
Kenny Larkin,
The Associates,
Blake Baxter,
Subhumans,
The Remains,
The Five Americans,
Livin' Joy,
Monolake,
Fluxion,
Chris Corsano,
Max Romeo,
Cecil Taylor,
the Soft Cell,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Monochrome Set,
Dead Boys,
Sonic Youth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
A Certain Ratio,
Faraquet,
Nick Fraelich,
Isaac Hayes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.