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 St Lucia and from Paris.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Shoche to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
a-ha,
Joyce Sims,
Sugar Minott,
Au Pairs,
The Divine Comedy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Godley & Creme,
Blossom Toes,
Camberwell Now,
The Golliwogs,
Ultravox,
The Offenders,
Jandek,
Graham Central Station,
Accadde A,
The Blues Magoos,
The Busters,
Eve St. Jones,
Marshall Jefferson,
Amon Düül II,
Black Flag,
D'Angelo,
Blancmange,
kango's stein massive,
Man Parrish,
The Cowsills,
Public Image Ltd.,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Black Moon,
Bauhaus,
Eyeless In Gaza,
World's Most,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lakeside,
The Blackbyrds,
Marmalade,
Slave,
Duran Duran,
Das Ding,
Donald Byrd,
The Dead C,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABC,
Procol Harum,
Rod Modell,
EPMD,
Liliput,
Terry Callier,
Deadbeat,
Barrington Levy,
Technova,
Model 500,
David McCallum,
Deepchord,
KRS-One,
Audionom,
Jacob Miller,
L. Decosne,
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.