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 Bulgaria and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jerry's Kids to the techno 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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
The Dead C,
The Moleskins,
Quadrant,
Lucky Dragons,
Ultravox,
Flash Fearless,
Anthony Braxton,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lakeside,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sonny Sharrock,
the Human League,
Gang of Four,
the Normal,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Divine Comedy,
Kas Product,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ponytail,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Man Parrish,
The New Christs,
Ultra Naté,
Marine Girls,
Morten Harket,
The Fire Engines,
The Buckinghams,
Warren Ellis,
Banda Bassotti,
Marcia Griffiths,
Organ,
Smog,
Easy Going,
Sun City Girls,
Scrapy,
Adolescents,
Fear,
Average White Band,
Jawbox,
Main Source,
Godley & Creme,
Donny Hathaway,
Matthew Halsall,
Brand Nubian,
ABC,
Depeche Mode,
KRS-One,
Deadbeat,
One Last Wish,
MC5,
Cluster,
Andrew Hill,
Gang Gang Dance,
Youth Brigade,
Harmonia,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Underground Resistance,
Bobby Womack,
Swell Maps,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.