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 Indonesia and from Houston.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Angels of Light 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Harry Pussy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Beasts of Bourbon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
The Knickerbockers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
cv313,
Alice Coltrane,
Newcleus,
June of 44,
Reagan Youth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Monks,
The Slackers,
Rites of Spring,
Wings,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jacob Miller,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Niagra,
The Shadows of Knight,
Funky Four + One,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Black Dice,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mad Mike,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Cowsills,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sonic Youth,
Technova,
Rod Modell,
Depeche Mode,
Lightning Bolt,
L. Decosne,
Gerry Rafferty,
LL Cool J,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ronan,
Yaz,
This Heat,
Swell Maps,
Desert Stars,
The Barracudas,
Second Layer,
The Alarm Clocks,
T. Rex,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Move,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lakeside,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rakim,
Bobby Womack,
Aaron Thompson,
the Association,
Magma,
Aloha Tigers,
Cheater Slicks,
Traffic Nightmare,
DJ Sneak,
Wasted Youth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Walker Brothers,
Mission of Burma,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.