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 Bahamas and from Toronto.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Flesh Eaters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nick Fraelich,
Eden Ahbez,
Television,
Zapp,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Patti Smith,
Soul Sonic Force,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stereo Dub,
Barry Ungar,
Althea and Donna,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Coltrane,
Rites of Spring,
AZ,
Qualms,
Television Personalities,
Niagra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Brass Construction,
Pere Ubu,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Divine Comedy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dennis Brown,
Hasil Adkins,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Banda Bassotti,
The Vogues,
John Lydon,
Hashim,
Charles Mingus,
Q65,
Isaac Hayes,
Tommy Roe,
MDC,
Cybotron,
Lightning Bolt,
The Gladiators,
Robert Görl,
The Neon Judgement,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Associates,
Aaron Thompson,
E-Dancer,
Minnie Riperton,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pylon,
Yusef Lateef,
Tim Buckley,
Gichy Dan,
The Tremeloes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Barbara Tucker,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sound Behaviour,
David Bowie,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.