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 Egypt and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Pharoah Sanders to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Iggy Pop record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Ossler,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Buckinghams,
Steve Hackett,
Chris Corsano,
The Last Poets,
Cal Tjader,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Sound,
Au Pairs,
Aloha Tigers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eli Mardock,
Altered Images,
The Dead C,
PIL,
48th St. Collective,
10cc,
Connie Case,
Scott Walker,
The Divine Comedy,
Yazoo,
The Remains,
Grauzone,
The Misunderstood,
Peter and Kerry,
The Blackbyrds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Frankie Knuckles,
Moss Icon,
Gang of Four,
Rapeman,
Sister Nancy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Model 500,
Marvin Gaye,
Public Image Ltd.,
Outsiders,
Harmonia,
EPMD,
The Human League,
Bobby Sherman,
Banda Bassotti,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Alton Ellis,
The Gun Club,
The Gap Band,
The Gories,
Sex Pistols,
Mad Mike,
Amon Düül,
X-102,
Dark Day,
Basic Channel,
OOIOO,
Royal Trux,
Letta Mbulu,
Warren Ellis,
Barry Ungar,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.