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 Nauru and from Madrid.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Neu! to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Reuben Wilson,
The Wake,
Surgeon,
R.M.O.,
Essential Logic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Thee Headcoats,
Fad Gadget,
Sällskapet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Black Dice,
Warsaw,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jawbox,
Swell Maps,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scan 7,
Hardrive,
Icehouse,
Boredoms,
The Cowsills,
Scientists,
Ohio Players,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Whodini,
Pagans,
X-102,
Pylon,
Fluxion,
The Blackbyrds,
Marc Almond,
Wally Richardson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ronnie Foster,
kango's stein massive,
Siglo XX,
Little Man,
The Pretty Things,
Buzzcocks,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bill Wells,
LL Cool J,
The Velvet Underground,
Jacques Brel,
Bauhaus,
Kayak,
Cymande,
Cal Tjader,
Marmalade,
Fatback Band,
The Electric Prunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lightning Bolt,
Lalo Schifrin,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Monochrome Set,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Slits,
Peter and Kerry,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.