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 Jordan and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Aural Exciters to the electroclash 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alison Limerick,
The Blackbyrds,
Michelle Simonal,
The Birthday Party,
The Fortunes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Model 500,
The Flesh Eaters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Fall,
OOIOO,
The Misunderstood,
The Real Kids,
KRS-One,
The Smiths,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Duran Duran,
Country Teasers,
Marmalade,
Black Moon,
Sandy B,
Arthur Verocai,
ABC,
Fela Kuti,
Soft Machine,
Joe Smooth,
Lalann,
Pagans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Chris Corsano,
Cluster,
Girls At Our Best!,
Animal Collective,
Jerry's Kids,
Nick Fraelich,
Goldenarms,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ponytail,
Nation of Ulysses,
Youth Brigade,
Severed Heads,
Sällskapet,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Au Pairs,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nas,
Black Pus,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marvin Gaye,
Leonard Cohen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Foxx,
Minny Pops,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Stiv Bators,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.