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 Ecuador and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Fortunes to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magazine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Mighty Diamonds,
Harmonia,
Chrome,
Parry Music,
D'Angelo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Monochrome Set,
Wings,
Deepchord,
Infiniti,
Flash Fearless,
Brick,
Judy Mowatt,
The Velvet Underground,
Alphaville,
Suicide,
Shoche,
Byron Stingily,
Massinfluence,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Peter & Gordon,
Young Marble Giants,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mad Mike,
Neu!,
Bluetip,
Section 25,
Bush Tetras,
Youth Brigade,
the Slits,
Joe Finger,
Nas,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Modern Lovers,
Curtis Mayfield,
John Cale,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Angry Samoans,
The Mojo Men,
Magma,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Connie Case,
Marmalade,
The Walker Brothers,
Ornette Coleman,
Severed Heads,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Goldenarms,
Roger Hodgson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Warren Ellis,
The Move,
Camouflage,
Sarah Menescal,
Mantronix,
Bill Wells,
Lakeside,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.