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 Guinea and from London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 spring reverb 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the dance 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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crooked Eye,
Skarface,
CMW,
Patti Smith,
Con Funk Shun,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare,
The Durutti Column,
Scrapy,
Half Japanese,
Sparks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rhythm & Sound,
Derrick May,
Eli Mardock,
Mandrill,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gang of Four,
June Days,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Skaos,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Main Source,
One Last Wish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sam Rivers,
Sound Behaviour,
Theoretical Girls,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Star Department,
Lalann,
Nas,
Josef K,
Depeche Mode,
The Slits,
Crime,
The Golliwogs,
Quadrant,
In Retrospect,
Scott Walker,
Leonard Cohen,
Alphaville,
Circle Jerks,
The Cure,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rites of Spring,
Mars,
China Crisis,
Mo-Dettes,
The Saints,
Radio Birdman,
Fela Kuti,
Traffic Nightmare,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Alton Ellis,
Lungfish,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Roxy Music,
Masters at Work,
James White and The Blacks,
Robert Hood,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.