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 Ukraine and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Bluetip to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s 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 Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Sonic Youth,
Johnny Clarke,
Dawn Penn,
Harmonia,
OOIOO,
Amon Düül,
Neil Young,
Ultra Naté,
Spoonie Gee,
Frankie Knuckles,
Arab on Radar,
Bill Wells,
Rapeman,
Zero Boys,
Dennis Brown,
Monks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sandy B,
Bobby Byrd,
Glenn Branca,
Essential Logic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Can,
Matthew Halsall,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Sonics,
Nico,
Cecil Taylor,
Minor Threat,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Severed Heads,
Public Image Ltd.,
Skarface,
Graham Central Station,
Crispian St. Peters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Real Kids,
Gang Starr,
The Blues Magoos,
Faust,
Monolake,
Bizarre Inc.,
Robert Wyatt,
the Sonics,
Erykah Badu,
Magma,
DJ Style,
Howard Jones,
Wally Richardson,
FM Einheit,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ohio Players,
Terry Callier,
Reuben Wilson,
Jacob Miller,
Lungfish,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Leaves,
Dark Day,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.