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 Saudi Arabia and from Paris.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar 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 Echospace to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marine Girls,
Whodini,
Gerry Rafferty,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ituana,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Man Parrish,
Archie Shepp,
Black Flag,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Carl Craig,
Negative Approach,
Joyce Sims,
Can,
The Pretty Things,
Johnny Clarke,
Lou Reed,
Lee Hazlewood,
Youth Brigade,
Junior Murvin,
The Smiths,
The Motions,
The Busters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Sheep,
Q65,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Khruangbin,
Fugazi,
Banda Bassotti,
Public Enemy,
Boogie Down Productions,
Depeche Mode,
Drexciya,
Bobby Byrd,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Harpers Bizarre,
Main Source,
Maleditus Sound,
Desert Stars,
Charles Mingus,
China Crisis,
Clear Light,
Piero Umiliani,
B.T. Express,
Joy Division,
New York Dolls,
The Fortunes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nils Olav,
Mandrill,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Star Department,
Infiniti,
Brick,
The J.B.'s,
Cameo,
The Index,
Danielle Patucci,
Donald Byrd,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.