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 Micronesia and from Edmonton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 synthesizer 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ultravox,
The Toasters,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Neil Young,
Sixth Finger,
The Mummies,
Scientists,
Byron Stingily,
Terrestrial Tones,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Finger,
Sugar Minott,
The Walker Brothers,
Dark Day,
Prince Buster,
Zero Boys,
Stiv Bators,
X-Ray Spex,
Pagans,
The Moody Blues,
Nils Olav,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Monochrome Set,
The Wake,
the Slits,
The Doobie Brothers,
Essential Logic,
Judy Mowatt,
Pere Ubu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Last Poets,
Trumans Water,
Malaria!,
Matthew Halsall,
Soft Cell,
Ornette Coleman,
Steve Hackett,
Mad Mike,
The Invisible,
Sight & Sound,
Masters at Work,
Ossler,
EPMD,
Ice-T,
Hot Snakes,
Kayak,
Ludus,
Sex Pistols,
Groovy Waters,
Jerry's Kids,
Country Joe & The Fish,
David McCallum,
Icehouse,
John Coltrane,
Tommy Roe,
Moby Grape,
Fugazi,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.