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 Ivory Coast and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 arpeggiator 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 DJ Style to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Stereo Dub,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gang Gang Dance,
Soulsonic Force,
World's Most,
Ornette Coleman,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gil Scott Heron,
Leonard Cohen,
Connie Case,
Heaven 17,
The Cure,
Roy Ayers,
The Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Motions,
Deadbeat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Chris & Cosey,
Mantronix,
Vainqueur,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Joyce Sims,
Donald Byrd,
Quadrant,
The Index,
Erasure,
Brothers Johnson,
The Offenders,
The Toasters,
Jeff Lynne,
David Bowie,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Deakin,
X-102,
Boogie Down Productions,
X-101,
The Alarm Clocks,
Monolake,
The Fall,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Pop Group,
Todd Terry,
Los Fastidios,
Urselle,
the Human League,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
FM Einheit,
Archie Shepp,
Fifty Foot Hose,
John Lydon,
Bobby Byrd,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gerry Rafferty,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.