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 Liberia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 güiro 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 Sixth Finger to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alison Limerick,
Sister Nancy,
Yusef Lateef,
Soulsonic Force,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Fuzztones,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Knickerbockers,
Piero Umiliani,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lucky Dragons,
Rapeman,
Lalann,
Newcleus,
The Associates,
Magma,
Rites of Spring,
Kayak,
Roxy Music,
Moss Icon,
Television,
Thompson Twins,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cheater Slicks,
Shoche,
Grauzone,
Junior Murvin,
Dennis Brown,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Sonics,
Metal Thangz,
Josef K,
Oblivians,
Swans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Neon Judgement,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Janne Schatter,
Roger Hodgson,
Infiniti,
Technova,
Traffic Nightmare,
Suicide,
Mary Jane Girls,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
B.T. Express,
Symarip,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Siglo XX,
Sugar Minott,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Television Personalities,
Fluxion,
Pussy Galore,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.