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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Winnipeg.
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 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 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 Cymande to the rock 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
The Index,
The Vogues,
Howard Jones,
Arab on Radar,
Agitation Free,
Funkadelic,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kerri Chandler,
Visage,
Scion,
Bizarre Inc.,
Susan Cadogan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joe Smooth,
Kayak,
The Modern Lovers,
The Music Machine,
Malaria!,
Livin' Joy,
Lindisfarne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bad Manners,
OOIOO,
Henry Cow,
Soul Sonic Force,
Freddie Wadling,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tears for Fears,
the Sonics,
The Electric Prunes,
Faraquet,
Todd Rundgren,
Hoover,
Ronnie Foster,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Moebius,
Dual Sessions,
EPMD,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kevin Saunderson,
Terry Callier,
Trumans Water,
Whodini,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Slackers,
Khruangbin,
Jimmy McGriff,
AZ,
Q and Not U,
Chris Corsano,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Monks,
Audionom,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
UT,
X-101,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Busters,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.