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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the electroclash 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ice-T record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
The Skatalites,
Camouflage,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joyce Sims,
Procol Harum,
LL Cool J,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soft Machine,
The Gladiators,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aaron Thompson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Erykah Badu,
Matthew Halsall,
The Misunderstood,
Terrestrial Tones,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ultravox,
Masters at Work,
Sister Nancy,
Rotary Connection,
Howard Jones,
Boredoms,
Anthony Braxton,
Scan 7,
Max Romeo,
Panda Bear,
Nico,
X-102,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Residents,
DNA,
Donny Hathaway,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bronski Beat,
Quantec,
Liliput,
Tubeway Army,
Echospace,
The Associates,
Adolescents,
Althea and Donna,
The Move,
The Slits,
Marine Girls,
the Germs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Derrick May,
Theoretical Girls,
Amazonics,
Mad Mike,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Association,
Scrapy,
X-Ray Spex,
Aloha Tigers,
Parry Music,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Detroit Cobras,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.