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 Lebanon and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Deadbeat to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lebanon Hanover,
DJ Sneak,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Harpers Bizarre,
Flamin' Groovies,
Andrew Hill,
Aloha Tigers,
Khruangbin,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Max Romeo,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Make Up,
Bootsy Collins,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nico,
Man Parrish,
The Buckinghams,
Slick Rick,
Scion,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Can,
Monolake,
the Swans,
T.S.O.L.,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bluetip,
kango's stein massive,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Procol Harum,
Television,
Soulsonic Force,
Iggy Pop,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rod Modell,
Mr. Review,
The Velvet Underground,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Gories,
Sällskapet,
Unwound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Barrington Levy,
Barry Ungar,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Moon,
Gabor Szabo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Electric Prunes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Newcleus,
Al Stewart,
The Grass Roots,
F. McDonald,
Bang On A Can,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.