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 Costa Rica and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Human League to the electroclash 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Livin' Joy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
The Gladiators,
Jeff Mills,
The Names,
Malaria!,
Gong,
Don Cherry,
Country Teasers,
FM Einheit,
The Smiths,
Rekid,
Sight & Sound,
Peter and Kerry,
Tom Boy,
Prince Buster,
Tomorrow,
Alphaville,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Deakin,
MDC,
Schoolly D,
The Associates,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Erykah Badu,
Kas Product,
Jacques Brel,
Eric Copeland,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Minor Threat,
Bobby Womack,
Trumans Water,
The Motions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hardrive,
Barclay James Harvest,
Underground Resistance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DNA,
The New Christs,
Interpol,
Barry Ungar,
cv313,
Little Man,
Dead Boys,
Rod Modell,
Aloha Tigers,
The Saints,
the Slits,
Au Pairs,
Yazoo,
The Doors,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pere Ubu,
Nico,
Spoonie Gee,
World's Most,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.