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 Slovenia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 a-ha to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Ten City,
Chrome,
Erykah Badu,
Icehouse,
Tubeway Army,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tears for Fears,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rufus Thomas,
Roxette,
KRS-One,
The Motions,
Reagan Youth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cybotron,
Fear,
Minnie Riperton,
Agent Orange,
Lindisfarne,
Terrestrial Tones,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Severed Heads,
The Saints,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sonny Sharrock,
Adolescents,
Donald Byrd,
Thee Headcoats,
Das Ding,
Lightning Bolt,
June of 44,
Henry Cow,
Michelle Simonal,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Black Moon,
Peter and Kerry,
Kayak,
Nas,
The Toasters,
Bobby Byrd,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eurythmics,
Essential Logic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q65,
Kerrie Biddell,
Blossom Toes,
Skaos,
Aural Exciters,
The Smiths,
Magazine,
Tommy Roe,
The Evens,
Ornette Coleman,
Scratch Acid,
La Düsseldorf,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.