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 United Kingdom and from Bremen.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 spring reverb 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 Fad Gadget to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Blancmange,
Inner City,
FM Einheit,
The Raincoats,
The Angels of Light,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Names,
Piero Umiliani,
Radiohead,
D'Angelo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Howard Jones,
Faust,
the Normal,
Eden Ahbez,
Laurel Aitken,
Pantytec,
The J.B.'s,
The Neon Judgement,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gabor Szabo,
Rod Modell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nas,
Glenn Branca,
The United States of America,
Unrelated Segments,
Gerry Rafferty,
Metal Thangz,
Lyres,
Maurizio,
Hardrive,
Amon Düül II,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Babytalk,
Derrick Morgan,
AZ,
Half Japanese,
Avey Tare,
the Swans,
E-Dancer,
Mr. Review,
Depeche Mode,
Sight & Sound,
Dennis Brown,
Tubeway Army,
Yusef Lateef,
Chris & Cosey,
One Last Wish,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
ABC,
Excepter,
Nico,
The Searchers,
Yellowson,
Blossom Toes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Carl Craig,
Peter & Gordon,
Lalann,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.