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 Portugal and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Lucky Dragons 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Davy DMX,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Letta Mbulu,
Delon & Dalcan,
Todd Terry,
the Bar-Kays,
Ultimate Spinach,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Minnie Riperton,
Slick Rick,
Scrapy,
Joe Smooth,
One Last Wish,
Technova,
Symarip,
Q and Not U,
John Coltrane,
Avey Tare,
MC5,
Absolute Body Control,
Von Mondo,
Angry Samoans,
Colin Newman,
Oblivians,
ABC,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eve St. Jones,
Pierre Henry,
The Young Rascals,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Steve Hackett,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kaleidoscope,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Laurel Aitken,
Liliput,
The Dead C,
Cameo,
Slave,
DJ Style,
The Leaves,
D'Angelo,
Quando Quango,
LL Cool J,
Gang Gang Dance,
David Bowie,
Kool Moe Dee,
New York Dolls,
The Invisible,
Janne Schatter,
Rosa Yemen,
The Red Krayola,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mission of Burma,
The Doors,
U.S. Maple,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Aswad,
Andrew Hill,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.