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 Senegal and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Bronski Beat,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lakeside,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scan 7,
Crime,
The Gap Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Swans,
Pet Shop Boys,
K-Klass,
Frankie Knuckles,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joyce Sims,
Fela Kuti,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tears for Fears,
Tim Buckley,
Junior Murvin,
Bootsy Collins,
Jacques Brel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Tubeway Army,
Boz Scaggs,
Prince Buster,
Funkadelic,
The Saints,
Leonard Cohen,
Desert Stars,
Pulsallama,
Qualms,
Eve St. Jones,
a-ha,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dead Boys,
Sugar Minott,
Q and Not U,
Brothers Johnson,
Magma,
The Mummies,
Hasil Adkins,
Minor Threat,
David McCallum,
Pole,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Kinks,
Hardrive,
The Raincoats,
Audionom,
EPMD,
Sound Behaviour,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Severed Heads,
Donny Hathaway,
Aloha Tigers,
The Real Kids,
L. Decosne,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.