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 Benin and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the electroclash 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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lou Reed,
Todd Terry,
Black Moon,
Depeche Mode,
Cal Tjader,
Quadrant,
New Age Steppers,
The Neon Judgement,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Boredoms,
Bronski Beat,
The Divine Comedy,
The Shadows of Knight,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Gories,
Nation of Ulysses,
Drexciya,
Isaac Hayes,
Intrusion,
The Smoke,
The Gladiators,
The Toasters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Mummies,
Peter & Gordon,
Ludus,
A Certain Ratio,
Al Stewart,
Popol Vuh,
Jerry's Kids,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Trojans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Evens,
World's Most,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Make Up,
Audionom,
The Birthday Party,
Spandau Ballet,
8 Eyed Spy,
Au Pairs,
The Index,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dave Gahan,
The Young Rascals,
Surgeon,
The Fall,
The Litter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pantaleimon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grey Daturas,
Young Marble Giants,
Alton Ellis,
Marvin Gaye,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.