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 Kyrgyzstan and from New York.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 The Slits. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
L. Decosne,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joy Division,
The Music Machine,
Funkadelic,
the Fania All-Stars,
ABBA,
MC5,
Porter Ricks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Goldenarms,
Michelle Simonal,
Delon & Dalcan,
Josef K,
The Cowsills,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pussy Galore,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Franke,
Essential Logic,
The Tremeloes,
Rekid,
Don Cherry,
Janne Schatter,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Patti Smith,
Gil Scott Heron,
Brass Construction,
Sound Behaviour,
Hasil Adkins,
Todd Terry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alison Limerick,
Parry Music,
The Durutti Column,
The Remains,
Tommy Roe,
Negative Approach,
Yusef Lateef,
Pharoah Sanders,
PIL,
Monks,
China Crisis,
Deadbeat,
Tim Buckley,
Man Parrish,
Donald Byrd,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Whodini,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Vogues,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gap Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The J.B.'s,
Eddi Front,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.