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 Costa Rica and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 güiro 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 Severed Heads to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camouflage,
Simply Red,
Terrestrial Tones,
Colin Newman,
Radiopuhelimet,
The New Christs,
Cluster,
Dawn Penn,
Reagan Youth,
Alison Limerick,
Fear,
Neu!,
Bobby Sherman,
The Gun Club,
Japan,
Deepchord,
R.M.O.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fatback Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Nils Olav,
Talk Talk,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Saints,
James White and The Blacks,
Spoonie Gee,
Quadrant,
a-ha,
Pantytec,
Bad Manners,
Bob Dylan,
the Germs,
The Stooges,
Ornette Coleman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sun City Girls,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Easy Going,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bill Wells,
Sight & Sound,
10cc,
AZ,
Chris Corsano,
Unrelated Segments,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Howard Jones,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Young Marble Giants,
Glenn Branca,
Suburban Knight,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.