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 Cameroon and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Dorothy Ashby to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
The Seeds,
Alton Ellis,
Warsaw,
Slave,
Cheater Slicks,
Yellowson,
Godley & Creme,
Second Layer,
Jeff Mills,
New Order,
Crispy Ambulance,
Make Up,
Gong,
The Pretty Things,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Sound,
Technova,
Dead Boys,
Mars,
Soul II Soul,
Massinfluence,
Scott Walker,
the Human League,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Main Source,
Lebanon Hanover,
Interpol,
Joey Negro,
Hot Snakes,
The Kinks,
The Slits,
Supertramp,
Spoonie Gee,
The Wake,
Glenn Branca,
James White and The Blacks,
Cameo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lakeside,
Moebius,
The Shadows of Knight,
Reagan Youth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Tubeway Army,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Invisible,
The Toasters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cluster,
Altered Images,
Spandau Ballet,
Pulsallama,
JFA,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Thompson Twins,
The Blackbyrds,
the Normal,
Iggy Pop,
Electric Prunes,
Magma,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.