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 Denmark and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Holger Czukay 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 New Order to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Spandau Ballet,
The Mojo Men,
Icehouse,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ornette Coleman,
Crooked Eye,
The Black Dice,
Nation of Ulysses,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Organ,
Wasted Youth,
Josef K,
Andrew Hill,
The Count Five,
Tomorrow,
The Flesh Eaters,
Q and Not U,
Lou Christie,
Ultravox,
Cymande,
Peter & Gordon,
The Busters,
Minnie Riperton,
Yaz,
OOIOO,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Shoche,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Axelrod,
Buzzcocks,
Royal Trux,
Das Ding,
Eden Ahbez,
Model 500,
Eric Copeland,
The Toasters,
X-101,
Byron Stingily,
Warren Ellis,
F. McDonald,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Groovy Waters,
Pylon,
The Zeros,
Heaven 17,
The Five Americans,
Sun City Girls,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Negative Approach,
L. Decosne,
Swell Maps,
Joy Division,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Barry Ungar,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Neil Young,
Marmalade,
Brothers Johnson,
Marvin Gaye,
Jandek,
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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.