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 Malta and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 theremin 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 Qualms to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Suburban Knight,
Ultra Naté,
Darondo,
Rod Modell,
Alison Limerick,
Negative Approach,
This Heat,
Tubeway Army,
Dave Gahan,
Ohio Players,
Lower 48,
Joey Negro,
David Bowie,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Flash Fearless,
Ralphi Rosario,
Iggy Pop,
Excepter,
The Misunderstood,
Rosa Yemen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Country Teasers,
The Moody Blues,
Avey Tare,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fear,
The Invisible,
Crash Course in Science,
The Fugs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Quadrant,
Morten Harket,
Model 500,
Flamin' Groovies,
UT,
Lalo Schifrin,
Goldenarms,
Roxy Music,
Peter & Gordon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Hashim,
In Retrospect,
The Remains,
Henry Cow,
KRS-One,
X-102,
Lou Reed,
Suicide,
Young Marble Giants,
Television,
D'Angelo,
Los Fastidios,
Theoretical Girls,
Sun Ra,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.