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 the UAE and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Enemy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Young Marble Giants,
Procol Harum,
John Lydon,
Zero Boys,
Nico,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joy Division,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Chrome,
Marmalade,
Scientists,
These Immortal Souls,
Eric Dolphy,
Todd Rundgren,
Jeru the Damaja,
Al Stewart,
The Black Dice,
Arab on Radar,
the Association,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Maleditus Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Bananas,
The New Christs,
The Smoke,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Half Japanese,
Thompson Twins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mark Hollis,
Ten City,
Patti Smith,
Scrapy,
Moebius,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Babytalk,
Delta 5,
In Retrospect,
Soulsonic Force,
Television,
Stiv Bators,
Junior Murvin,
Quadrant,
Basic Channel,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Offenders,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
48th St. Collective,
Lakeside,
John Foxx,
The Move,
Bizarre Inc.,
David Axelrod,
Howard Jones,
Matthew Bourne,
Yaz,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.