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 Togo and from Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 DJ Style to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and a synthesizer 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 guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
The Gap Band,
CMW,
Saccharine Trust,
The Wake,
The Cowsills,
Von Mondo,
Kas Product,
Marine Girls,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eve St. Jones,
Guru Guru,
Procol Harum,
Fat Boys,
Eddi Front,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Avey Tare,
Piero Umiliani,
The Durutti Column,
Mantronix,
One Last Wish,
Bronski Beat,
Unwound,
Alton Ellis,
Pussy Galore,
Bauhaus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Searchers,
Matthew Bourne,
Absolute Body Control,
Henry Cow,
Wasted Youth,
A Certain Ratio,
Andrew Hill,
Bad Manners,
H. Thieme,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
cv313,
Camberwell Now,
Goldenarms,
The Victims,
Michelle Simonal,
Liliput,
Ultra Naté,
Television Personalities,
Fad Gadget,
JFA,
Pere Ubu,
Kurtis Blow,
Kerri Chandler,
Fear,
Easy Going,
The Mojo Men,
The Modern Lovers,
Aswad,
Depeche Mode,
EPMD,
Radiopuhelimet,
Archie Shepp,
AZ,
Anakelly,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.