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 Kenya and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Man Eating Sloth to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Throbbing Gristle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Popol Vuh,
Heaven 17,
Piero Umiliani,
Juan Atkins,
Pagans,
Avey Tare,
Leonard Cohen,
New Order,
Deepchord,
Prince Buster,
The Divine Comedy,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fortunes,
Pole,
Eli Mardock,
Agent Orange,
Lower 48,
Fat Boys,
Eric Dolphy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Alison Limerick,
The Human League,
Amon Düül II,
Quando Quango,
E-Dancer,
Smog,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Janne Schatter,
Cybotron,
Johnny Osbourne,
Connie Case,
Lightning Bolt,
Siglo XX,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pantaleimon,
Godley & Creme,
Silicon Teens,
Fela Kuti,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Michelle Simonal,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Reuben Wilson,
Con Funk Shun,
R.M.O.,
Gregory Isaacs,
Chrome,
Severed Heads,
Delta 5,
Bootsy Collins,
Sarah Menescal,
Mark Hollis,
Sällskapet,
Erykah Badu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.