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 Malaysia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rakim to the crunk 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
Scientists,
The Grass Roots,
Bootsy Collins,
Popol Vuh,
Dennis Brown,
New Age Steppers,
Ornette Coleman,
Audionom,
The Count Five,
Swans,
Ten City,
Dawn Penn,
The Divine Comedy,
The Happenings,
Wire,
Isaac Hayes,
Peter & Gordon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Accadde A,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Stockholm Monsters,
Second Layer,
Ludus,
The Fire Engines,
DJ Sneak,
The Sound,
Alison Limerick,
Magazine,
The Barracudas,
Marcia Griffiths,
Junior Murvin,
China Crisis,
The Slits,
Anakelly,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pylon,
The Doors,
Eddi Front,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sight & Sound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Graham Central Station,
Oneida,
Aaron Thompson,
The Fortunes,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Smiths,
The Electric Prunes,
Alice Coltrane,
Scrapy,
Malaria!,
Lalo Schifrin,
Todd Terry,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Josef K,
Rosa Yemen,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Red Krayola,
Electric Light Orchestra,
CMW,
The Gun Club,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.