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 Malawi and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Madrid.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
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 The Monks to the crunk 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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Hasil Adkins,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jeff Mills,
Zero Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Names,
Charles Mingus,
E-Dancer,
Eric Dolphy,
Vladislav Delay,
The Vogues,
John Foxx,
Main Source,
Nils Olav,
Maleditus Sound,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Sherman,
Piero Umiliani,
Harmonia,
The Gap Band,
PIL,
Japan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Trumans Water,
Marmalade,
Black Bananas,
The Raincoats,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magma,
Boogie Down Productions,
Man Parrish,
Joe Finger,
Peter & Gordon,
Spandau Ballet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Trojans,
June of 44,
Lou Christie,
The Fire Engines,
Infiniti,
Wally Richardson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Move,
Jacob Miller,
Nico,
L. Decosne,
Isaac Hayes,
Eddi Front,
Curtis Mayfield,
Icehouse,
Alison Limerick,
The Associates,
Silicon Teens,
Von Mondo,
Reagan Youth,
Jacques Brel,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soft Machine,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fad Gadget,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.