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 Rwanda and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Trumans Water to the rap 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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
Nick Fraelich,
LL Cool J,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Khruangbin,
Sun Ra,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Fire Engines,
Kas Product,
KRS-One,
Con Funk Shun,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Tubeway Army,
The Leaves,
Simply Red,
Infiniti,
Marc Almond,
Scott Walker,
Jawbox,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Alphaville,
Judy Mowatt,
Kevin Saunderson,
Niagra,
Sound Behaviour,
Q65,
Kerri Chandler,
Index,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jerry's Kids,
Rod Modell,
Eli Mardock,
Shoche,
The Star Department,
The Martian,
X-101,
Country Teasers,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Detroit Cobras,
In Retrospect,
Dark Day,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Faust,
The Monochrome Set,
K-Klass,
Bauhaus,
The Pretty Things,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kenny Larkin,
Guru Guru,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Drive Like Jehu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Symarip,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sarah Menescal,
Mission of Burma,
The Blackbyrds,
The Sound,
Radiohead,
Marine Girls,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.