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 Monaco and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pierre Henry to the punk 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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Reagan Youth,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
B.T. Express,
The Doors,
Flipper,
Funky Four + One,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ronan,
The Knickerbockers,
Q and Not U,
Joyce Sims,
Andrew Hill,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Swell Maps,
Erasure,
Television,
Faust,
The United States of America,
Albert Ayler,
Derrick Morgan,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Walker Brothers,
Rod Modell,
Bill Wells,
The Gun Club,
The Invisible,
DNA,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Gories,
AZ,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bizarre Inc.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Average White Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Peter & Gordon,
The Dead C,
Thee Headcoats,
John Lydon,
the Swans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dave Gahan,
The Tremeloes,
Qualms,
Magazine,
Isaac Hayes,
Marmalade,
Barrington Levy,
The Gap Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Underground Resistance,
Gang Green,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.