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 Botswana and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Hashim to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Tom Boy,
Skaos,
Underground Resistance,
The Sonics,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Outsiders,
Gang of Four,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cecil Taylor,
The Fall,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Victims,
Sexual Harrassment,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Raincoats,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cal Tjader,
Visage,
Zero Boys,
Roger Hodgson,
Dual Sessions,
Barbara Tucker,
Radio Birdman,
The Wake,
Black Bananas,
Soul Sonic Force,
Scientists,
Tommy Roe,
Wire,
The Grass Roots,
Marvin Gaye,
Loose Ends,
Anakelly,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bang On A Can,
Can,
ABC,
Pere Ubu,
Glenn Branca,
Joensuu 1685,
Sight & Sound,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jacques Brel,
Harmonia,
Soul II Soul,
UT,
The Black Dice,
Fela Kuti,
Hoover,
Gabor Szabo,
Lower 48,
Moebius,
Blossom Toes,
Bad Manners,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tomorrow,
Vladislav Delay,
Danielle Patucci,
Desert Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.