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 Vanuatu and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 linndrum 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 Harpers Bizarre to the jazz 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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes 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?
Sam Rivers,
Man Parrish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Kinks,
Soft Cell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sonic Youth,
Khruangbin,
These Immortal Souls,
Faraquet,
Underground Resistance,
Monolake,
Joensuu 1685,
The Moody Blues,
Amon Düül II,
Trumans Water,
PIL,
The Fugs,
Delta 5,
Soft Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
China Crisis,
Godley & Creme,
Donald Byrd,
Peter & Gordon,
Juan Atkins,
Public Image Ltd.,
Shoche,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bill Near,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
In Retrospect,
Black Flag,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cameo,
Newcleus,
Radio Birdman,
Talk Talk,
Pole,
Nick Fraelich,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bootsy Collins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Whodini,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Slits,
Amon Düül,
Alice Coltrane,
Pagans,
Supertramp,
Rufus Thomas,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Bar-Kays,
Alphaville,
The Sound,
Accadde A,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.