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 Laos and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe 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 Chrome to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
Boz Scaggs,
Erykah Badu,
Flash Fearless,
Country Teasers,
Silicon Teens,
Icehouse,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Barry Ungar,
The Five Americans,
Jerry Gold Smith,
cv313,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Flipper,
Johnny Clarke,
The Divine Comedy,
New York Dolls,
Bad Manners,
John Cale,
Isaac Hayes,
The Invisible,
The Trojans,
Agent Orange,
Schoolly D,
Hashim,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deepchord,
The Smoke,
Bobby Byrd,
Wally Richardson,
Brand Nubian,
Gil Scott Heron,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Massinfluence,
Roy Ayers,
Vladislav Delay,
the Slits,
Ultra Naté,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Y Pants,
Tom Boy,
Arcadia,
Loose Ends,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Zeros,
Roger Hodgson,
Mantronix,
Joe Smooth,
Minutemen,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Youth Brigade,
Pulsallama,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Parry Music,
The Misunderstood,
MC5,
the Human League,
Barrington Levy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Skaos,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.