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 Djibouti and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Edmonton.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Basic Channel to the electroclash 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 The Index. All the underground hits.
All The Last Poets tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Jeru the Damaja,
Chris Corsano,
Derrick May,
In Retrospect,
The Last Poets,
Barry Ungar,
DJ Style,
Marcia Griffiths,
Public Image Ltd.,
Saccharine Trust,
Model 500,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Happenings,
Malaria!,
Jerry's Kids,
The Mojo Men,
Jawbox,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Flag,
Yaz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Guru Guru,
Oneida,
The Misunderstood,
Josef K,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mars,
The Gun Club,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Moon,
Dennis Brown,
Michelle Simonal,
the Bar-Kays,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Essential Logic,
The Vogues,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Johnny Clarke,
The Stooges,
Supertramp,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Wyatt,
Barrington Levy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Yusef Lateef,
The Gladiators,
Nation of Ulysses,
New Age Steppers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Livin' Joy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Zeros,
Grauzone,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.