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 Bulgaria and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manila.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Ossler to the rock 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
AZ,
Loose Ends,
Lightning Bolt,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Swans,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ohio Players,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Interpol,
Spandau Ballet,
Skaos,
Rod Modell,
Gang of Four,
Erasure,
the Germs,
Sister Nancy,
Youth Brigade,
Motorama,
Big Daddy Kane,
Warsaw,
Maurizio,
kango's stein massive,
Eve St. Jones,
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lyres,
The Star Department,
Fugazi,
Heaven 17,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Searchers,
Bronski Beat,
The Gories,
The Motions,
Neil Young,
Jerry's Kids,
Soulsonic Force,
Unrelated Segments,
Chris & Cosey,
Tom Boy,
Joe Smooth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Standells,
Oblivians,
Buzzcocks,
New Age Steppers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Moby Grape,
Nas,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobby Sherman,
Nirvana,
The J.B.'s,
Carl Craig,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Avey Tare,
Marvin Gaye,
Aural Exciters,
The Vogues,
Underground Resistance,
John Cale,
Soul II Soul,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.