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 Romania and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 MC5 to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Gil Scott Heron,
Moss Icon,
Inner City,
John Foxx,
Youth Brigade,
Neu!,
Moebius,
Eden Ahbez,
In Retrospect,
Fluxion,
Arab on Radar,
Peter & Gordon,
Kas Product,
Dorothy Ashby,
Patti Smith,
Stereo Dub,
Ten City,
Glenn Branca,
Jandek,
JFA,
the Slits,
the Normal,
Clear Light,
Bootsy Collins,
Chris & Cosey,
The Count Five,
Aural Exciters,
Average White Band,
Heaven 17,
Quando Quango,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
La Düsseldorf,
Kenny Larkin,
Brand Nubian,
The Invisible,
Adolescents,
Skaos,
Franke,
Morten Harket,
Panda Bear,
Infiniti,
Throbbing Gristle,
Prince Buster,
Swans,
Underground Resistance,
Vainqueur,
L. Decosne,
Donny Hathaway,
Matthew Halsall,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Crooked Eye,
Minnie Riperton,
Wings,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tropical Tobacco,
Blake Baxter,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.