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 Congo and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Fluxion to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Ohio Players,
The Seeds,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roger Hodgson,
Spoonie Gee,
Warren Ellis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
cv313,
The Techniques,
Dual Sessions,
Second Layer,
Mission of Burma,
Jandek,
Mo-Dettes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Stooges,
Pere Ubu,
The Pretty Things,
the Soft Cell,
Vainqueur,
Sister Nancy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Janne Schatter,
Infiniti,
The Trojans,
Jeff Mills,
Chris & Cosey,
Pussy Galore,
Grandmaster Flash,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Blackbyrds,
Severed Heads,
Alison Limerick,
Tears for Fears,
Unrelated Segments,
Patti Smith,
Junior Murvin,
Avey Tare,
Scientists,
China Crisis,
Sam Rivers,
Stereo Dub,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Simply Red,
Yaz,
Pylon,
X-102,
Nick Fraelich,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pole,
Danielle Patucci,
Hashim,
Erykah Badu,
Morten Harket,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Slits,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lyres,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.