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 Manchester.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Joey Negro to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Throbbing Gristle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
the Association,
Nirvana,
Lightning Bolt,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Janne Schatter,
Hashim,
Monolake,
Ludus,
Barrington Levy,
Lalann,
Clear Light,
Lou Reed,
Darondo,
Brass Construction,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Subhumans,
Kevin Saunderson,
Simply Red,
Bob Dylan,
DNA,
Rufus Thomas,
Joy Division,
Rod Modell,
Negative Approach,
Big Daddy Kane,
Barbara Tucker,
The Blues Magoos,
The Dave Clark Five,
LL Cool J,
Black Moon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bizarre Inc.,
Audionom,
The Blackbyrds,
Panda Bear,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Bananas,
The Smoke,
Joe Smooth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cluster,
Michelle Simonal,
Ornette Coleman,
Don Cherry,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Tremeloes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Flash Fearless,
Swans,
Faust,
Vainqueur,
Joensuu 1685,
Sonny Sharrock,
Royal Trux,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tom Boy,
Television,
Radio Birdman,
John Cale,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.