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 Serbia and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Hong Kong.
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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Youth Brigade to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Piero Umiliani,
Funky Four + One,
Fear,
Johnny Osbourne,
Delta 5,
Marine Girls,
Wings,
L. Decosne,
The Slits,
Anthony Braxton,
Eric Copeland,
Reagan Youth,
MC5,
Pet Shop Boys,
Carl Craig,
Alison Limerick,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Magma,
Country Joe & The Fish,
H. Thieme,
The Tremeloes,
Slick Rick,
Alton Ellis,
The Knickerbockers,
Absolute Body Control,
Harmonia,
The Wake,
Iggy Pop,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roxy Music,
Skriet,
The Sound,
Ice-T,
Bad Manners,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jacques Brel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Michelle Simonal,
The Martian,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Loose Ends,
Pole,
Minny Pops,
Hasil Adkins,
La Düsseldorf,
Jerry's Kids,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Green,
Zapp,
K-Klass,
The Last Poets,
Camberwell Now,
Danielle Patucci,
Amazonics,
The Misunderstood,
Shuggie Otis,
Parry Music,
Rufus Thomas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.