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 Ghana and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Public Image Ltd. to the techno 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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Scion,
Dead Boys,
Make Up,
Sällskapet,
Marine Girls,
Yaz,
Pussy Galore,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hardrive,
Skriet,
Cameo,
Neil Young,
The Leaves,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The American Breed,
Joey Negro,
Hot Snakes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lebanon Hanover,
Con Funk Shun,
Brass Construction,
The Tremeloes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Archie Shepp,
Barbara Tucker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
T. Rex,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Radiohead,
Fatback Band,
The Real Kids,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Dead C,
Warren Ellis,
CMW,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cheater Slicks,
Adolescents,
The Stooges,
Guru Guru,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Sonics,
LL Cool J,
Althea and Donna,
Reuben Wilson,
Anthony Braxton,
Jesper Dahlback,
Arthur Verocai,
One Last Wish,
Quadrant,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gil Scott Heron,
Icehouse,
The Litter,
Boogie Down Productions,
Max Romeo,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Agitation Free,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.