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 Angola and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 The Walker Brothers 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Gerry Rafferty,
Deepchord,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DJ Style,
Cluster,
R.M.O.,
Depeche Mode,
The Cowsills,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Freddie Wadling,
The Knickerbockers,
the Association,
Grauzone,
Parry Music,
Soft Cell,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Divine Comedy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Black Bananas,
Infiniti,
Glenn Branca,
The Human League,
Frankie Knuckles,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Gun Club,
The Fuzztones,
Mr. Review,
Lucky Dragons,
Gichy Dan,
Khruangbin,
The Wake,
Bad Manners,
Scrapy,
The Vogues,
Michelle Simonal,
Mandrill,
Marine Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rapeman,
Roxy Music,
Cheater Slicks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Massinfluence,
Boz Scaggs,
Joensuu 1685,
Excepter,
Yellowson,
Adolescents,
Panda Bear,
H. Thieme,
Davy DMX,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Spoonie Gee,
UT,
Ohio Players,
Altered Images,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.