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 Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 marimba 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 Zero Boys 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lungfish,
F. McDonald,
Max Romeo,
Mo-Dettes,
Sällskapet,
Scan 7,
The Fuzztones,
Circle Jerks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eddi Front,
Simply Red,
Chris & Cosey,
Judy Mowatt,
T.S.O.L.,
the Swans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wolf Eyes,
UT,
Von Mondo,
Erasure,
the Sonics,
L. Decosne,
Scratch Acid,
Roxette,
Lakeside,
Moss Icon,
Country Teasers,
Freddie Wadling,
The Slits,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jacob Miller,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sarah Menescal,
The Electric Prunes,
Black Pus,
Ten City,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Techniques,
OOIOO,
La Düsseldorf,
Graham Central Station,
Loose Ends,
Charles Mingus,
David McCallum,
Eric Copeland,
Alison Limerick,
Howard Jones,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Barracudas,
Buzzcocks,
Silicon Teens,
Dead Boys,
Donny Hathaway,
Brand Nubian,
Frankie Knuckles,
Warren Ellis,
Lou Reed,
Carl Craig,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.