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 Niger and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare 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 Harry Pussy to the techno 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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 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?
Amon Düül II,
Marvin Gaye,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pussy Galore,
Bootsy Collins,
Gang Starr,
Black Moon,
Soul II Soul,
Silicon Teens,
Warren Ellis,
Nik Kershaw,
Hashim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Black Pus,
Spandau Ballet,
Organ,
Ice-T,
Fad Gadget,
Joyce Sims,
Susan Cadogan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
a-ha,
the Slits,
Sound Behaviour,
Boogie Down Productions,
Reuben Wilson,
Amazonics,
Harry Pussy,
Drexciya,
Trumans Water,
Los Fastidios,
The Associates,
Swans,
Morten Harket,
Monks,
The Misunderstood,
Freddie Wadling,
ABBA,
Visage,
Hoover,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gregory Isaacs,
Albert Ayler,
Peter and Kerry,
David Axelrod,
Slick Rick,
Moby Grape,
Ornette Coleman,
Robert Wyatt,
KRS-One,
Goldenarms,
Circle Jerks,
Jeff Mills,
Funkadelic,
Yazoo,
Eric Copeland,
Malaria!,
Erasure,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.