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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Little Man to the electroclash 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Anakelly,
John Lydon,
Subhumans,
Second Layer,
Half Japanese,
Rufus Thomas,
Bronski Beat,
DJ Style,
Isaac Hayes,
Jacob Miller,
Black Bananas,
These Immortal Souls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
H. Thieme,
Tubeway Army,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Fuzztones,
Howard Jones,
Kurtis Blow,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jeff Mills,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sister Nancy,
Fela Kuti,
Eve St. Jones,
Dual Sessions,
The Fortunes,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Oblivians,
The Evens,
cv313,
Unwound,
Laurel Aitken,
Robert Wyatt,
Man Parrish,
Electric Prunes,
Toni Rubio,
Ohio Players,
Roxette,
Bobby Sherman,
Carl Craig,
Tom Boy,
The Skatalites,
The Toasters,
Harmonia,
Freddie Wadling,
X-102,
Heaven 17,
Joensuu 1685,
Excepter,
Reagan Youth,
the Human League,
Basic Channel,
Niagra,
ABBA,
The American Breed,
The Pop Group,
Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop.
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.