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 Latvia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Mantronix to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Lightning Bolt,
The Raincoats,
Jerry's Kids,
LL Cool J,
Echospace,
Junior Murvin,
cv313,
Kenny Larkin,
The Doobie Brothers,
Byron Stingily,
The Slackers,
The Cure,
Neil Young,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Eurythmics,
Soul Sonic Force,
Minnie Riperton,
Faraquet,
Public Enemy,
Althea and Donna,
Thompson Twins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobby Sherman,
Juan Atkins,
The Searchers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bad Manners,
Chris & Cosey,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quando Quango,
Stetsasonic,
The Gladiators,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bronski Beat,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tears for Fears,
Smog,
Ten City,
Wire,
Nas,
FM Einheit,
Vladislav Delay,
Gang of Four,
The Human League,
Main Source,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Walker Brothers,
Duran Duran,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scratch Acid,
Joensuu 1685,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Dead C,
Kurtis Blow,
Barbara Tucker,
Leonard Cohen,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.