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 Honduras and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Alton Ellis to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
The Fugs,
The Walker Brothers,
Graham Central Station,
Guru Guru,
Motorama,
Smog,
Eric Copeland,
Ponytail,
Gastr Del Sol,
Magazine,
Cheater Slicks,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Busters,
Pantaleimon,
Gang of Four,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Brass Construction,
The Vogues,
Dave Gahan,
Man Parrish,
Erasure,
Au Pairs,
The Slits,
The Standells,
Drexciya,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
cv313,
Mars,
Ultravox,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Supertramp,
Tears for Fears,
Grauzone,
The Raincoats,
MC5,
Intrusion,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ten City,
Agitation Free,
Organ,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Iggy Pop,
Gabor Szabo,
the Association,
The Last Poets,
World's Most,
Make Up,
X-101,
U.S. Maple,
The Dirtbombs,
Saccharine Trust,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lightning Bolt,
The Associates,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal,
Yusef Lateef,
The Fire Engines,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.