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 Andorra and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar 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 Cheater Slicks to the punk 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Massinfluence,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Unrelated Segments,
48th St. Collective,
The Star Department,
Ohio Players,
Lungfish,
Aloha Tigers,
Youth Brigade,
Kayak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kerrie Biddell,
Underground Resistance,
Susan Cadogan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sight & Sound,
Johnny Osbourne,
Arab on Radar,
AZ,
Technova,
Intrusion,
Sonic Youth,
Monks,
Basic Channel,
Agent Orange,
Kas Product,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Charles Mingus,
Ten City,
MDC,
China Crisis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
New York Dolls,
The Velvet Underground,
Sunsets and Hearts,
U.S. Maple,
Trumans Water,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mark Hollis,
The Five Americans,
Marvin Gaye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dorothy Ashby,
Flash Fearless,
Main Source,
Reuben Wilson,
Maleditus Sound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Thompson Twins,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Alice Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kurtis Blow,
Vainqueur,
Spandau Ballet,
Gil Scott Heron,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Red Krayola,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.