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 Paraguay and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Unwound to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
FM Einheit,
K-Klass,
Joy Division,
Y Pants,
Guru Guru,
Roger Hodgson,
Mr. Review,
E-Dancer,
Inner City,
Alton Ellis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Audionom,
Sonic Youth,
Jesper Dahlback,
Intrusion,
The Pretty Things,
Minor Threat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pussy Galore,
Minny Pops,
The Trojans,
X-102,
Sound Behaviour,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Oblivians,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Echospace,
The Gun Club,
Fela Kuti,
Eurythmics,
Minnie Riperton,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Association,
Tubeway Army,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grandmaster Flash,
B.T. Express,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lee Hazlewood,
Groovy Waters,
Ludus,
Supertramp,
Moebius,
Jeff Lynne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lightning Bolt,
Qualms,
Camberwell Now,
Cecil Taylor,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ituana,
Soft Cell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marshall Jefferson,
PIL,
The Zeros,
Chris Corsano,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.