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 Equatorial Guinea and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 synthesizer 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 Massinfluence to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lower 48,
Toni Rubio,
Steve Hackett,
Althea and Donna,
Letta Mbulu,
Oneida,
Joe Smooth,
The Gap Band,
Lakeside,
Man Parrish,
Marine Girls,
Cymande,
Pere Ubu,
Pet Shop Boys,
Interpol,
Gang Green,
David Axelrod,
Man Eating Sloth,
Johnny Clarke,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Stereo Dub,
Sister Nancy,
The Remains,
Organ,
The Standells,
Connie Case,
The Fuzztones,
Scan 7,
These Immortal Souls,
Porter Ricks,
The Last Poets,
Cheater Slicks,
Fatback Band,
Ice-T,
The Five Americans,
R.M.O.,
The Velvet Underground,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gun Club,
K-Klass,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Residents,
Harmonia,
Negative Approach,
cv313,
Wings,
Funkadelic,
Peter & Gordon,
Aswad,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Knickerbockers,
The Pop Group,
The Alarm Clocks,
The J.B.'s,
The Monochrome Set,
Big Daddy Kane,
Yaz,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dual Sessions,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.