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 Algeria and from Salvador.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 L. Decosne to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Slackers,
the Sonics,
Pylon,
Eden Ahbez,
Simply Red,
Franke,
Nick Fraelich,
Jacob Miller,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Qualms,
Duran Duran,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Glenn Branca,
Kas Product,
Pussy Galore,
Eric Copeland,
Agitation Free,
Wire,
The Divine Comedy,
ABC,
Ultimate Spinach,
Panda Bear,
T.S.O.L.,
The Gories,
Chris & Cosey,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Techniques,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Alphaville,
Cluster,
Niagra,
Thompson Twins,
Maurizio,
Half Japanese,
Pharoah Sanders,
Schoolly D,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gun Club,
Matthew Halsall,
PIL,
The Fall,
Ituana,
The Buckinghams,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Cameo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Clear Light,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mr. Review,
Little Man,
Piero Umiliani,
the Fania All-Stars,
Main Source,
Todd Rundgren,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.