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 Poland and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fugazi to the techno 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Terry Callier,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roger Hodgson,
Spoonie Gee,
Dave Gahan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Golliwogs,
Archie Shepp,
The Dead C,
Bill Wells,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Amon Düül II,
Godley & Creme,
Rufus Thomas,
Joe Finger,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ultra Naté,
The Martian,
The Real Kids,
The Shadows of Knight,
One Last Wish,
Bronski Beat,
LL Cool J,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
ABC,
Deakin,
Visage,
The Mummies,
Urselle,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Byron Stingily,
Barrington Levy,
Rapeman,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mad Mike,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Tremeloes,
Kayak,
The Standells,
K-Klass,
The Barracudas,
The Busters,
Rhythm & Sound,
Prince Buster,
Swell Maps,
Panda Bear,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Remains,
Ronan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxy Music,
Cluster,
Wire,
Sparks,
the Normal,
Peter and Kerry,
The Sound,
Steve Hackett,
Aswad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.