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 Kiribati and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb 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 Dawn Penn to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids 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?
China Crisis,
Nils Olav,
Massinfluence,
The Move,
Boredoms,
The Doobie Brothers,
Blossom Toes,
DNA,
Siglo XX,
Sun Ra,
Bobby Womack,
Moebius,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Toasters,
The Busters,
Dawn Penn,
Hashim,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crispy Ambulance,
Robert Görl,
The Fortunes,
Jerry's Kids,
Drexciya,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eric Copeland,
Big Daddy Kane,
Robert Wyatt,
The Black Dice,
Althea and Donna,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ossler,
Delta 5,
Minutemen,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Tremeloes,
Nas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Babytalk,
D'Angelo,
Freddie Wadling,
Sister Nancy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nick Fraelich,
Janne Schatter,
Soft Cell,
Connie Case,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dual Sessions,
Can,
Cal Tjader,
Easy Going,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang Green,
Terry Callier,
Grauzone,
Barry Ungar,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.