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 States 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Smog to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
Marmalade,
Lakeside,
The Evens,
Curtis Mayfield,
Von Mondo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jeff Mills,
Eli Mardock,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sugar Minott,
Boz Scaggs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
James White and The Blacks,
Dawn Penn,
Scion,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Delta 5,
Ultra Naté,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Letta Mbulu,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Unrelated Segments,
Warren Ellis,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Blues Magoos,
Sonic Youth,
Man Parrish,
Underground Resistance,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
MC5,
Television Personalities,
Alice Coltrane,
Hot Snakes,
Supertramp,
This Heat,
Grauzone,
World's Most,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Dirtbombs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kas Product,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kevin Saunderson,
Yusef Lateef,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lightning Bolt,
Lou Reed,
The Fugs,
The Monochrome Set,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lungfish,
The Gap Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tommy Roe,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.