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 Slovakia and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe 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 Matthew Halsall to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Be Bop Deluxe,
In Retrospect,
Monolake,
10cc,
Gregory Isaacs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nirvana,
Anthony Braxton,
Boredoms,
Brick,
Neil Young,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
John Lydon,
Skaos,
Fatback Band,
Nick Fraelich,
The Happenings,
Index,
Yaz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kerri Chandler,
Lightning Bolt,
Au Pairs,
The Selecter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Oblivians,
ABC,
The Slackers,
Qualms,
The Cure,
Interpol,
Leonard Cohen,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Guru Guru,
Eurythmics,
E-Dancer,
Amon Düül,
Lower 48,
Amazonics,
Joensuu 1685,
The Mummies,
Minutemen,
Carl Craig,
Cameo,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Offenders,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Livin' Joy,
Darondo,
Popol Vuh,
Spoonie Gee,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Index,
Donald Byrd,
The Fuzztones,
The New Christs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Derrick Morgan,
Symarip,
The Red Krayola,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.