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 Solomon Islands 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Clear Light to the electroclash 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 Selector Dub Narcotic. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Sister Nancy,
Flash Fearless,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sonic Youth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
CMW,
David McCallum,
The Evens,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Holt,
Motorama,
Sun Ra,
Brothers Johnson,
Pantytec,
H. Thieme,
ABBA,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Barclay James Harvest,
Livin' Joy,
Echospace,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Toni Rubio,
Minnie Riperton,
Nation of Ulysses,
Adolescents,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ituana,
Dennis Brown,
Skaos,
Tim Buckley,
DNA,
the Human League,
China Crisis,
Severed Heads,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Gladiators,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Nas,
Saccharine Trust,
Chris & Cosey,
Pharoah Sanders,
Danielle Patucci,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
U.S. Maple,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Remains,
Joe Smooth,
Soft Machine,
Prince Buster,
The Skatalites,
The Fugs,
The Invisible,
Barrington Levy,
Heaven 17,
Warsaw,
Magazine,
Parry Music,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.