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 Bulgaria and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 clarinet 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 Funkadelic to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Sonic Youth,
Loose Ends,
Black Flag,
Arab on Radar,
the Swans,
Jacob Miller,
Funky Four + One,
Grey Daturas,
The Gap Band,
Carl Craig,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Human League,
Absolute Body Control,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Chrome,
Roxy Music,
Kenny Larkin,
MC5,
The Red Krayola,
Deakin,
Harmonia,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Selecter,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bluetip,
Judy Mowatt,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Accadde A,
Lakeside,
Urselle,
David McCallum,
Man Eating Sloth,
Skriet,
Sun Ra,
The Sound,
DJ Sneak,
Black Sheep,
Janne Schatter,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang Gang Dance,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Girls At Our Best!,
Unrelated Segments,
MDC,
Vladislav Delay,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Von Mondo,
Bush Tetras,
Godley & Creme,
Ken Boothe,
Idris Muhammad,
Babytalk,
Kayak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Normal,
Sound Behaviour,
The Walker Brothers,
Livin' Joy,
The Tremeloes,
Avey Tare,
Wire,
The Index,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.