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 Nicaragua and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kerri Chandler to the grime 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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Man Parrish,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Das Ding,
Angry Samoans,
The Star Department,
The Birthday Party,
Fugazi,
the Human League,
Parry Music,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
KRS-One,
The Dead C,
Rakim,
Swell Maps,
Fear,
Charles Mingus,
Lalann,
Wasted Youth,
Laurel Aitken,
The Golliwogs,
Agent Orange,
Chris & Cosey,
Hot Snakes,
Slave,
The Grass Roots,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Steve Hackett,
Aural Exciters,
Icehouse,
The Pretty Things,
Toni Rubio,
The Buckinghams,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bang On A Can,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kayak,
John Foxx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scion,
Oblivians,
Hardrive,
Scrapy,
Crash Course in Science,
MC5,
Franke,
Donald Byrd,
Aswad,
Infiniti,
Scott Walker,
David Axelrod,
Echospace,
Patti Smith,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Excepter,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
China Crisis,
Soulsonic Force,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Visage,
Blake Baxter,
Faraquet,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.