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 Barbados and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba 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 The Birthday Party to the grunge 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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
DJ Sneak,
John Cale,
Gang of Four,
Anthony Braxton,
Quadrant,
Ohio Players,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monks,
The Fugs,
Colin Newman,
The Vogues,
Swans,
The Doors,
Harry Pussy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Skaos,
Alison Limerick,
Soft Cell,
Infiniti,
Drexciya,
Bobby Byrd,
Sexual Harrassment,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bronski Beat,
The Techniques,
Robert Wyatt,
The Beau Brummels,
Eden Ahbez,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nas,
Thompson Twins,
Whodini,
Stereo Dub,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lou Reed,
Das Ding,
Bobby Womack,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
June Days,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dual Sessions,
The Modern Lovers,
Rosa Yemen,
The Misunderstood,
Rites of Spring,
James White and The Blacks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Pretty Things,
Tomorrow,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Barry Ungar,
Theoretical Girls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Victims,
The Human League,
Au Pairs,
The Cramps,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Josef K,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.