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 Uruguay and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Eurythmics to the grime 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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Minnie Riperton,
the Swans,
Ultravox,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Agitation Free,
Frankie Knuckles,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rufus Thomas,
Neil Young,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nils Olav,
Avey Tare,
R.M.O.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Index,
AZ,
David Axelrod,
Black Sheep,
Moss Icon,
Smog,
The J.B.'s,
Japan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Black Bananas,
Yellowson,
Yusef Lateef,
Popol Vuh,
Jimmy McGriff,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nik Kershaw,
Colin Newman,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Star Department,
Stetsasonic,
Minny Pops,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
PIL,
The Birthday Party,
Lungfish,
The Real Kids,
Technova,
Excepter,
Gil Scott Heron,
Echospace,
Dawn Penn,
Rosa Yemen,
Monolake,
Tim Buckley,
Little Man,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Motorama,
Brothers Johnson,
Bob Dylan,
Arcadia,
Mo-Dettes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flipper,
Pole,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.