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 Guinea-Bissau and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
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 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 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 The Dead C to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
Magma,
The Gladiators,
Scrapy,
Gong,
Cal Tjader,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Pretty Things,
Tres Demented,
Gregory Isaacs,
Outsiders,
Kayak,
LL Cool J,
The Residents,
Rapeman,
Babytalk,
Organ,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Funkadelic,
Mr. Review,
Basic Channel,
Minor Threat,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Byrd,
Warren Ellis,
Procol Harum,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jandek,
Essential Logic,
Desert Stars,
Blake Baxter,
Fad Gadget,
Unwound,
The Electric Prunes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brand Nubian,
Symarip,
Idris Muhammad,
Schoolly D,
Nico,
Sister Nancy,
Niagra,
The Leaves,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Monks,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sugar Minott,
EPMD,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kenny Larkin,
Flash Fearless,
The Red Krayola,
Ultra Naté,
Scan 7,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Buckinghams,
Technova,
Massinfluence,
John Foxx,
U.S. Maple,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.