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 France and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 arpeggiator 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 Stockholm Monsters to the rock 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Colin Newman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Associates,
Public Enemy,
Swell Maps,
Mark Hollis,
Toni Rubio,
Chris Corsano,
The Mummies,
the Normal,
Country Teasers,
Fatback Band,
Derrick May,
Kerrie Biddell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lee Hazlewood,
Second Layer,
Scrapy,
Infiniti,
Todd Rundgren,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gabor Szabo,
Sällskapet,
Alton Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funky Four + One,
Accadde A,
MC5,
Hot Snakes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Royal Trux,
The Young Rascals,
Technova,
Ornette Coleman,
Thee Headcoats,
The Move,
The Invisible,
Barbara Tucker,
The Black Dice,
Unwound,
The Gun Club,
Joy Division,
The Cowsills,
FM Einheit,
Cybotron,
Nirvana,
Sound Behaviour,
Ponytail,
The New Christs,
Symarip,
Scientists,
The Moody Blues,
Gang Starr,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
John Foxx,
Eric Copeland,
Minor Threat,
Reuben Wilson,
Oneida,
Tres Demented,
Matthew Halsall,
Derrick Morgan,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.