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 Thailand and from Mexico City.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Tropical Tobacco to the jazz 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Visage,
Sex Pistols,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barclay James Harvest,
H. Thieme,
Nas,
Soft Cell,
AZ,
Sandy B,
The Walker Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Maleditus Sound,
Derrick May,
Lakeside,
Joe Finger,
Crash Course in Science,
Lou Reed,
Con Funk Shun,
Yusef Lateef,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sister Nancy,
John Cale,
K-Klass,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barry Ungar,
Josef K,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Soft Cell,
Alice Coltrane,
the Human League,
The Gladiators,
Kaleidoscope,
ABC,
Grey Daturas,
Outsiders,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marcia Griffiths,
X-101,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Skarface,
The Standells,
DJ Style,
Faust,
Au Pairs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scrapy,
Supertramp,
Mr. Review,
Stockholm Monsters,
Aaron Thompson,
Rotary Connection,
The Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Motorama,
The Index,
Hot Snakes,
The Modern Lovers,
Toni Rubio,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.