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 Chad and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 harpsichord 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 Oneida to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
U.S. Maple,
DNA,
Organ,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rufus Thomas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ludus,
The Gap Band,
Motorama,
Circle Jerks,
The Mummies,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Faust,
Alphaville,
Radiohead,
The Smoke,
Rotary Connection,
X-Ray Spex,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kerrie Biddell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Monks,
The Monks,
AZ,
10cc,
Wire,
Bobby Sherman,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Young Rascals,
Yellowson,
Dark Day,
Whodini,
China Crisis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Godley & Creme,
John Foxx,
Nik Kershaw,
Minnie Riperton,
Kas Product,
Jimmy McGriff,
Das Ding,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Arcadia,
John Holt,
Gong,
Swell Maps,
A Certain Ratio,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Black Sheep,
Pulsallama,
Monolake,
The Fortunes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ronan,
The Music Machine,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marcia Griffiths,
Stereo Dub,
T.S.O.L.,
Flash Fearless,
Lucky Dragons,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.