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 Netherlands and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ultravox to the jazz 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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
The Smiths,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
June of 44,
MC5,
LL Cool J,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hasil Adkins,
Tres Demented,
Jimmy McGriff,
Massinfluence,
Q and Not U,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
X-Ray Spex,
Little Man,
Blancmange,
Groovy Waters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Todd Terry,
Colin Newman,
Mad Mike,
Erykah Badu,
DJ Style,
Lucky Dragons,
Deadbeat,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Danielle Patucci,
Amazonics,
Piero Umiliani,
Television Personalities,
Bobby Byrd,
Pet Shop Boys,
Visage,
Brass Construction,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Negative Approach,
Sexual Harrassment,
Main Source,
Sonic Youth,
Lungfish,
Gabor Szabo,
Soul II Soul,
Swell Maps,
Scientists,
ABBA,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Minutemen,
Von Mondo,
The Fugs,
Mark Hollis,
Simply Red,
Guru Guru,
Scion,
Kenny Larkin,
Fear,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.