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 Spain and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Matthew Halsall to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Flash Fearless,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Basic Channel,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Icehouse,
Essential Logic,
Connie Case,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Whodini,
Bush Tetras,
Jeff Lynne,
Buzzcocks,
New Age Steppers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Henry Cow,
The Blackbyrds,
Frankie Knuckles,
Second Layer,
UT,
Faust,
Kaleidoscope,
The Gladiators,
The Beau Brummels,
Skaos,
Sonic Youth,
Eric Copeland,
Rekid,
Steve Hackett,
The Angels of Light,
James White and The Blacks,
Arthur Verocai,
The Toasters,
The Young Rascals,
Tres Demented,
The Gap Band,
Dawn Penn,
The Saints,
The Martian,
Alton Ellis,
The Real Kids,
China Crisis,
Girls At Our Best!,
Junior Murvin,
Fatback Band,
Slick Rick,
Pere Ubu,
Stetsasonic,
Cecil Taylor,
Metal Thangz,
X-101,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Traffic Nightmare,
Boredoms,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Busters,
Ultra Naté,
Lungfish,
L. Decosne,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.