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 Ivory Coast and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Seoul and Philadelphia.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the sitar 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 Jerry's Kids to the jazz 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
The Last Poets,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Minny Pops,
Neu!,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Guru Guru,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eli Mardock,
Sister Nancy,
A Certain Ratio,
Stereo Dub,
John Foxx,
Mark Hollis,
Icehouse,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cluster,
The Invisible,
Lalo Schifrin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shoche,
The Dead C,
Fat Boys,
The Kinks,
Tears for Fears,
Glenn Branca,
Don Cherry,
June Days,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Drive Like Jehu,
Livin' Joy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Theoretical Girls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
R.M.O.,
Hardrive,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fire Engines,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Todd Terry,
Anakelly,
Kayak,
Arthur Verocai,
Cybotron,
Rakim,
The Gladiators,
Moby Grape,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Yusef Lateef,
The Moleskins,
Outsiders,
Urselle,
Blossom Toes,
Crash Course in Science,
John Cale,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eden Ahbez,
Wally Richardson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bob Dylan,
Dark Day,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.