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 Paraguay and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Halifax.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Pussy Galore to the crunk 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 Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Cymande,
Max Romeo,
Junior Murvin,
Gong,
Scan 7,
Yazoo,
Alison Limerick,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Livin' Joy,
Slick Rick,
Yaz,
Throbbing Gristle,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Skriet,
Scratch Acid,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Germs,
Black Moon,
Make Up,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Mighty Diamonds,
JFA,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Robert Görl,
Ituana,
John Lydon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jawbox,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sun City Girls,
Pulsallama,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terry Callier,
Franke,
Kayak,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Red Krayola,
Joensuu 1685,
Section 25,
Television,
The Pop Group,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Alice Coltrane,
The Flesh Eaters,
Amazonics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Altered Images,
The Seeds,
Interpol,
a-ha,
Rapeman,
Agitation Free,
Mad Mike,
Pantytec,
Reuben Wilson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Hoover,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.