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 Ivory Coast and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Birthday Party,
Monolake,
Mr. Review,
Depeche Mode,
Bad Manners,
Dave Gahan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Connie Case,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Thee Headcoats,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Frankie Knuckles,
Massinfluence,
Fatback Band,
Japan,
Al Stewart,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Schoolly D,
Robert Hood,
Warren Ellis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lee Hazlewood,
Henry Cow,
John Lydon,
The American Breed,
Bill Wells,
New Age Steppers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Pop Group,
Flamin' Groovies,
Inner City,
Mary Jane Girls,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cal Tjader,
Mo-Dettes,
UT,
The Evens,
Roxette,
the Association,
Silicon Teens,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nation of Ulysses,
Crispy Ambulance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Doors,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobby Byrd,
Radio Birdman,
Suicide,
Marine Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Jeff Mills,
Crispian St. Peters,
Deakin,
The Cure,
Vladislav Delay,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.