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 Benin and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 ABC to the dance 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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Parry Music,
Liliput,
Underground Resistance,
Swans,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Wake,
Peter and Kerry,
New York Dolls,
Eric Copeland,
Con Funk Shun,
DJ Sneak,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Toni Rubio,
Arthur Verocai,
Throbbing Gristle,
Derrick Morgan,
The Flesh Eaters,
AZ,
Grauzone,
Sound Behaviour,
Goldenarms,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Index,
Sixth Finger,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bush Tetras,
The Motions,
Deepchord,
Sex Pistols,
The Fall,
Siglo XX,
Severed Heads,
Sparks,
Joensuu 1685,
The Black Dice,
Mandrill,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Birthday Party,
E-Dancer,
The Angels of Light,
Johnny Clarke,
X-101,
Japan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Human League,
The Dead C,
The Divine Comedy,
Radio Birdman,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Beau Brummels,
Joe Finger,
Excepter,
Eden Ahbez,
X-102,
Mars,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rod Modell,
Rosa Yemen,
Massinfluence,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.