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 Comoros and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 The Fuzztones to the grunge 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Man Parrish,
Shoche,
Radio Birdman,
The Blues Magoos,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Human League,
Qualms,
Graham Central Station,
Prince Buster,
Max Romeo,
Neil Young,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Darondo,
Loose Ends,
Matthew Halsall,
Metal Thangz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Raincoats,
cv313,
The Slackers,
Livin' Joy,
The New Christs,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Eden Ahbez,
John Holt,
Aaron Thompson,
June Days,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jerry's Kids,
Slave,
Oneida,
Black Moon,
Scan 7,
The Wake,
Davy DMX,
Donald Byrd,
The Moleskins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Chris Corsano,
New Order,
Aloha Tigers,
Brand Nubian,
Marine Girls,
Ralphi Rosario,
Arcadia,
E-Dancer,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Stetsasonic,
Joyce Sims,
OOIOO,
Average White Band,
Blossom Toes,
Sister Nancy,
Schoolly D,
Godley & Creme,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Motions,
Erykah Badu,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.