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 Panama and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 snare 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 Gregory Isaacs to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
The Vogues,
Michelle Simonal,
Matthew Bourne,
Nik Kershaw,
Icehouse,
Underground Resistance,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Adolescents,
The Dead C,
Von Mondo,
Sonic Youth,
Panda Bear,
Sparks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bronski Beat,
Groovy Waters,
Mars,
Gregory Isaacs,
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dennis Brown,
Malaria!,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Deepchord,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cybotron,
John Cale,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Minny Pops,
Hardrive,
Barrington Levy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sight & Sound,
B.T. Express,
Sugar Minott,
The J.B.'s,
Lyres,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
New Order,
Yaz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Minor Threat,
Easy Going,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Davy DMX,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sex Pistols,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sound Behaviour,
The Music Machine,
Procol Harum,
Pagans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Danielle Patucci,
David Bowie,
The Count Five,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scratch Acid,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.