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 Rwanda and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 David McCallum to the electroclash 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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
Soulsonic Force,
The Toasters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Icehouse,
Juan Atkins,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sex Pistols,
Public Enemy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Desert Stars,
Organ,
Faraquet,
Y Pants,
The Angels of Light,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Leonard Cohen,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Angry Samoans,
Letta Mbulu,
Chrome,
Colin Newman,
Wally Richardson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The American Breed,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Massinfluence,
Index,
Arab on Radar,
Dual Sessions,
Graham Central Station,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Janne Schatter,
Los Fastidios,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Pus,
UT,
Oblivians,
Hardrive,
Mars,
Black Bananas,
Joey Negro,
Vainqueur,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Inner City,
Young Marble Giants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Searchers,
The Standells,
Skarface,
Howard Jones,
10cc,
The Monochrome Set,
Visage,
Tomorrow,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.