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 Uruguay and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
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 Kas Product to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rakim,
Scratch Acid,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fugazi,
Chris & Cosey,
Lower 48,
Suburban Knight,
Lungfish,
The Durutti Column,
Desert Stars,
Interpol,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Flash Fearless,
The Gap Band,
DJ Style,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Searchers,
Barry Ungar,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scott Walker,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gang Green,
The Real Kids,
Crispy Ambulance,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Anakelly,
L. Decosne,
K-Klass,
Sexual Harrassment,
Q and Not U,
Brand Nubian,
The Cowsills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pere Ubu,
Whodini,
Au Pairs,
Radio Birdman,
Jeru the Damaja,
Moss Icon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ponytail,
The Mummies,
The Standells,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Human League,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Magma,
Erasure,
The Raincoats,
Shuggie Otis,
Al Stewart,
The Buckinghams,
The United States of America,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scrapy,
The Remains,
MDC,
In Retrospect,
The Pop Group,
Rotary Connection,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.