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 Ghana and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum 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 The Litter to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jandek,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Slick Rick,
Television,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Pus,
Pylon,
The Residents,
The Martian,
Niagra,
Reagan Youth,
Gang Starr,
ABBA,
The Pretty Things,
Donald Byrd,
Scan 7,
Crime,
Dennis Brown,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Cowsills,
Mad Mike,
Goldenarms,
Funkadelic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kerrie Biddell,
Q65,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bobby Byrd,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Throbbing Gristle,
A Certain Ratio,
John Cale,
Au Pairs,
Jeff Lynne,
Man Parrish,
The New Christs,
Minutemen,
Monolake,
Minnie Riperton,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hashim,
Ohio Players,
The Kinks,
Gang Gang Dance,
K-Klass,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Dave Clark Five,
Terry Callier,
Electric Prunes,
Alison Limerick,
DJ Sneak,
Tubeway Army,
The Fortunes,
DJ Style,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Sonics,
Agent Orange,
Excepter,
Mantronix,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.