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 Croatia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe 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 Dennis Brown to the funk 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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
The New Christs,
Blake Baxter,
John Holt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Young Rascals,
X-Ray Spex,
Electric Prunes,
Basic Channel,
Erykah Badu,
Grauzone,
Nirvana,
Albert Ayler,
Aural Exciters,
Half Japanese,
Bobby Sherman,
Visage,
Stockholm Monsters,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fall,
Sonny Sharrock,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ronan,
AZ,
Stiv Bators,
The Wake,
Tim Buckley,
Brass Construction,
DNA,
Camouflage,
The Kinks,
Godley & Creme,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fatback Band,
Laurel Aitken,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Livin' Joy,
The Associates,
Flash Fearless,
Suburban Knight,
Neu!,
Stetsasonic,
Young Marble Giants,
Johnny Clarke,
Connie Case,
Goldenarms,
Kool Moe Dee,
Yusef Lateef,
Dennis Brown,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Sound,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Banda Bassotti,
The Human League,
Minny Pops,
Das Ding,
Minor Threat,
Marcia Griffiths,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scrapy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.