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 Angola and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator 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 Barclay James Harvest to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Clear Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Lydon,
Robert Hood,
Matthew Halsall,
Girls At Our Best!,
Echospace,
The J.B.'s,
The Monks,
Bronski Beat,
The Kinks,
Faust,
Deepchord,
UT,
Rosa Yemen,
Little Man,
Blancmange,
Prince Buster,
Alison Limerick,
Bang On A Can,
The Tremeloes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T. Rex,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mission of Burma,
10cc,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Neil Young,
John Cale,
Sight & Sound,
Flipper,
The Litter,
The Barracudas,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Shoche,
Idris Muhammad,
The Young Rascals,
London Community Gospel Choir,
In Retrospect,
David McCallum,
DJ Sneak,
Chrome,
The Fugs,
JFA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABC,
Peter & Gordon,
Zero Boys,
Animal Collective,
Porter Ricks,
Brothers Johnson,
World's Most,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Stooges,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mars,
Sällskapet,
Sex Pistols,
Dawn Penn,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.