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 Chile and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron 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 Stiv Bators to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
R.M.O.,
Minutemen,
Intrusion,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Blackbyrds,
Monolake,
Skarface,
Eurythmics,
The Gap Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Darondo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Massinfluence,
The Monks,
The Angels of Light,
Isaac Hayes,
Derrick May,
The Kinks,
Motorama,
Zero Boys,
Joy Division,
D'Angelo,
Ken Boothe,
Essential Logic,
Letta Mbulu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Standells,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Aloha Tigers,
the Germs,
Negative Approach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Invisible,
X-102,
Marine Girls,
the Human League,
Don Cherry,
Barrington Levy,
Laurel Aitken,
Ten City,
Stiv Bators,
Juan Atkins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Delon & Dalcan,
FM Einheit,
The Dead C,
The Gladiators,
The Searchers,
The Smiths,
Bobby Sherman,
Fad Gadget,
Loose Ends,
Jandek,
Crooked Eye,
Easy Going,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.