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 Germany and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 York Dolls to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Mad Mike,
The Sound,
Swell Maps,
Kaleidoscope,
Jandek,
Technova,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Blancmange,
Whodini,
The Cure,
Boredoms,
Arab on Radar,
Zapp,
Kurtis Blow,
Unwound,
Flamin' Groovies,
Depeche Mode,
The Skatalites,
Janne Schatter,
Gang Starr,
Flash Fearless,
Nils Olav,
The Monochrome Set,
Mark Hollis,
Ten City,
Crooked Eye,
Dark Day,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pantytec,
Peter & Gordon,
Bill Near,
Liliput,
Crash Course in Science,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
R.M.O.,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Morten Harket,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gang Green,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ken Boothe,
Bronski Beat,
Harmonia,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tres Demented,
Byron Stingily,
Animal Collective,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sight & Sound,
the Normal,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Zero Boys,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Robert Görl,
Black Bananas,
kango's stein massive,
The Fugs,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.