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 Maldives and from Delhi.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Saccharine Trust to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Barracudas,
Eric B and Rakim,
Camouflage,
Erasure,
Cheater Slicks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Sherman,
Massinfluence,
Harry Pussy,
The Tremeloes,
The Moody Blues,
Make Up,
Black Pus,
Gong,
Morten Harket,
Black Moon,
Surgeon,
JFA,
DJ Sneak,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Neil Young,
Rosa Yemen,
Technova,
Cymande,
Ohio Players,
World's Most,
Crime,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lyres,
Kurtis Blow,
F. McDonald,
In Retrospect,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric Copeland,
Pulsallama,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Theoretical Girls,
Gil Scott Heron,
Loose Ends,
Scion,
The Busters,
The Fuzztones,
the Germs,
Faraquet,
The Doobie Brothers,
UT,
Pierre Henry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter and Kerry,
Chrome,
LL Cool J,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mark Hollis,
Funky Four + One,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.