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 South Africa 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bologna.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Skarface to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
Peter and Kerry,
Brand Nubian,
Joey Negro,
FM Einheit,
Japan,
Outsiders,
Roxette,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Infiniti,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Connie Case,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sight & Sound,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Glenn Branca,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Half Japanese,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Urselle,
Minor Threat,
Lyres,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fear,
Funky Four + One,
Gabor Szabo,
Matthew Bourne,
The Index,
John Holt,
Spandau Ballet,
Vainqueur,
Jesper Dahlback,
New Order,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Scion,
Pharoah Sanders,
B.T. Express,
Supertramp,
Model 500,
Pantaleimon,
Negative Approach,
Gichy Dan,
Unwound,
The Neon Judgement,
The Grass Roots,
Prince Buster,
Janne Schatter,
Moss Icon,
The Fugs,
This Heat,
Little Man,
Marvin Gaye,
Blancmange,
Pylon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skarface,
Maurizio,
Bauhaus,
Crime,
Camouflage,
T. Rex,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.