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 Belarus and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Neil Young to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pylon,
Don Cherry,
Blake Baxter,
Gichy Dan,
The Associates,
the Swans,
Amon Düül,
Skarface,
Loose Ends,
The Zeros,
Rhythm & Sound,
Drexciya,
The Martian,
Jacques Brel,
Slick Rick,
Quantec,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Section 25,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jacob Miller,
Kaleidoscope,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lou Reed,
Mad Mike,
The Kinks,
Derrick Morgan,
Matthew Halsall,
Junior Murvin,
The Beau Brummels,
Ultravox,
Grey Daturas,
ABC,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Soulsonic Force,
Little Man,
Scott Walker,
Ken Boothe,
Boz Scaggs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Dave Clark Five,
Harry Pussy,
Ultra Naté,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Association,
DJ Style,
Marshall Jefferson,
Monks,
Unrelated Segments,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bobby Hutcherson,
T.S.O.L.,
Cameo,
Yusef Lateef,
Gang Starr,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nation of Ulysses,
Slave,
Pet Shop Boys,
Leonard Cohen,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.