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 Switzerland and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 sitar 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 The Mojo Men to the jazz 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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound 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?
A Certain Ratio,
Massinfluence,
Scott Walker,
Tommy Roe,
Livin' Joy,
Guru Guru,
Matthew Bourne,
Skriet,
The Doobie Brothers,
D'Angelo,
Bill Wells,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Angry Samoans,
In Retrospect,
EPMD,
Procol Harum,
Echospace,
Tom Boy,
Godley & Creme,
Negative Approach,
Brand Nubian,
Ronan,
Absolute Body Control,
Joy Division,
The Cramps,
Brothers Johnson,
Anthony Braxton,
Model 500,
Bill Near,
Cybotron,
Talk Talk,
Yaz,
The Invisible,
the Soft Cell,
The Knickerbockers,
Alphaville,
Jerry's Kids,
Kayak,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Connie Case,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
MDC,
Dark Day,
Deadbeat,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Mojo Men,
Robert Wyatt,
Arab on Radar,
Jeff Mills,
Brass Construction,
Swans,
Can,
JFA,
Scratch Acid,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lindisfarne,
The Evens,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Chris & Cosey,
Kerri Chandler,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.