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 Gabon and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Spokane.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ultra Naté. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Rosa Yemen,
Inner City,
Shoche,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Leaves,
Sister Nancy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scan 7,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alice Coltrane,
Desert Stars,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bill Wells,
Section 25,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eric B and Rakim,
Schoolly D,
Oblivians,
Gong,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Procol Harum,
The Knickerbockers,
Erykah Badu,
Bush Tetras,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kenny Larkin,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funky Four + One,
Magma,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Big Daddy Kane,
Icehouse,
Index,
Peter & Gordon,
John Coltrane,
The Associates,
Maurizio,
Erasure,
One Last Wish,
Cal Tjader,
Eve St. Jones,
Sonic Youth,
L. Decosne,
Yazoo,
Isaac Hayes,
Motorama,
Quantec,
Pole,
Sixth Finger,
The Red Krayola,
DJ Sneak,
Sex Pistols,
China Crisis,
The Doors,
Sexual Harrassment,
Deadbeat,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.