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 Vanuatu and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Hasil Adkins,
Liliput,
Brand Nubian,
Ponytail,
Procol Harum,
the Swans,
Isaac Hayes,
Little Man,
Charles Mingus,
Vainqueur,
The Motions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Television Personalities,
Ice-T,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Womack,
Excepter,
Iggy Pop,
The Sonics,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jeff Lynne,
Black Flag,
The Standells,
Minnie Riperton,
Minutemen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Seeds,
Black Pus,
Stereo Dub,
Metal Thangz,
D'Angelo,
The Smoke,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Vogues,
Swell Maps,
The Knickerbockers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Misunderstood,
Nation of Ulysses,
Angry Samoans,
Eric Dolphy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rakim,
Wolf Eyes,
The Blackbyrds,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quando Quango,
the Germs,
Niagra,
The Cure,
Ronnie Foster,
kango's stein massive,
Big Daddy Kane,
Subhumans,
Yellowson,
DJ Style,
Glenn Branca,
Radiohead,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.