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 Dominican Republic and from Hong Kong.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lille.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 UT to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kool Moe Dee,
Radiopuhelimet,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Agitation Free,
Matthew Bourne,
Yusef Lateef,
John Holt,
Rosa Yemen,
Kenny Larkin,
Peter and Kerry,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pagans,
Mo-Dettes,
The Human League,
Sound Behaviour,
Excepter,
Sonny Sharrock,
a-ha,
Cal Tjader,
Robert Wyatt,
Intrusion,
Donny Hathaway,
Fifty Foot Hose,
David McCallum,
John Foxx,
Ronnie Foster,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bootsy Collins,
Pere Ubu,
The Music Machine,
Masters at Work,
Isaac Hayes,
The Barracudas,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Reuben Wilson,
EPMD,
Con Funk Shun,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pylon,
Minor Threat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
K-Klass,
The Victims,
The Monks,
Piero Umiliani,
Theoretical Girls,
The Cure,
Byron Stingily,
Zero Boys,
Technova,
Dennis Brown,
Scan 7,
Kevin Saunderson,
OOIOO,
Au Pairs,
The Walker Brothers,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.