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 Qatar and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joe Smooth to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dead C record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Mark Hollis,
Sly & The Family Stone,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Absolute Body Control,
John Cale,
The Remains,
Juan Atkins,
AZ,
These Immortal Souls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barclay James Harvest,
Q and Not U,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Angels of Light,
Tomorrow,
Faust,
the Normal,
Byron Stingily,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gang Starr,
Sun City Girls,
The Fire Engines,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rotary Connection,
10cc,
Judy Mowatt,
Camouflage,
Amon Düül II,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Five Americans,
David Bowie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Associates,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Visage,
Lower 48,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mr. Review,
Au Pairs,
Malaria!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Quantec,
Electric Prunes,
Guru Guru,
Angry Samoans,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Wake,
Monolake,
Oblivians,
Tubeway Army,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Thee Headcoats,
Man Parrish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Litter,
The Stooges,
Altered Images,
Yazoo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.