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 Mali and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Standells to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 the Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Little Man,
Flipper,
Skriet,
Carl Craig,
Porter Ricks,
Arthur Verocai,
The Dirtbombs,
Anakelly,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bronski Beat,
Junior Murvin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kurtis Blow,
MDC,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Wally Richardson,
Rosa Yemen,
The Slits,
Radiohead,
Boz Scaggs,
Nas,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Audionom,
The Wake,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Grey Daturas,
The Gun Club,
The Music Machine,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lungfish,
Average White Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Johnny Clarke,
Albert Ayler,
Schoolly D,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
a-ha,
Can,
The Misunderstood,
Sällskapet,
Freddie Wadling,
David Bowie,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fluxion,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Monks,
Brass Construction,
Danielle Patucci,
Ultimate Spinach,
Davy DMX,
T.S.O.L.,
X-101,
The Black Dice,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Anthony Braxton,
Supertramp,
Prince Buster,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.