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 Yemen and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Warren Ellis to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Derrick May,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Subhumans,
The Fortunes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Michelle Simonal,
Rosa Yemen,
Brand Nubian,
Tears for Fears,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
48th St. Collective,
B.T. Express,
Sarah Menescal,
X-101,
The Blackbyrds,
Electric Prunes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Monolake,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Severed Heads,
The Remains,
The Gap Band,
Q65,
Clear Light,
Sällskapet,
Chrome,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mummies,
One Last Wish,
The Smiths,
Sonic Youth,
The Stooges,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joy Division,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pylon,
Brass Construction,
The Trojans,
The Golliwogs,
DNA,
Parry Music,
Black Sheep,
Supertramp,
The Dave Clark Five,
Chris & Cosey,
Minny Pops,
Fluxion,
the Fania All-Stars,
Black Flag,
Moss Icon,
The Star Department,
The Wake,
The Moleskins,
Godley & Creme,
Ultra Naté,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.