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 Nepal and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 the Soft Cell to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction 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?
Drive Like Jehu,
Slave,
Flamin' Groovies,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter & Gordon,
L. Decosne,
Kerrie Biddell,
Roxy Music,
Echospace,
The Happenings,
Lakeside,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
These Immortal Souls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Sonics,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Skarface,
Marmalade,
kango's stein massive,
Flash Fearless,
The Music Machine,
Deadbeat,
Amon Düül,
The Invisible,
Los Fastidios,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eric B and Rakim,
Porter Ricks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Agitation Free,
The Toasters,
Byron Stingily,
Groovy Waters,
Country Teasers,
Soul II Soul,
Nirvana,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Thee Headcoats,
Rosa Yemen,
Trumans Water,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Flipper,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Skatalites,
Scott Walker,
Camouflage,
Harry Pussy,
Soft Machine,
The Blackbyrds,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Goldenarms,
Urselle,
Public Enemy,
Donald Byrd,
Morten Harket,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Moody Blues,
Terrestrial Tones,
Nico,
The Golliwogs,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.