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 Serbia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DNA,
Derrick May,
The Divine Comedy,
The Gap Band,
Henry Cow,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Neon Judgement,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bobby Byrd,
One Last Wish,
The Last Poets,
The Smiths,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scientists,
Marmalade,
Kurtis Blow,
Slave,
Slick Rick,
Monolake,
Make Up,
Crispian St. Peters,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David McCallum,
David Axelrod,
the Germs,
Rites of Spring,
kango's stein massive,
Janne Schatter,
Flamin' Groovies,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Beau Brummels,
Moebius,
La Düsseldorf,
Soft Cell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
CMW,
Throbbing Gristle,
Stiv Bators,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scan 7,
Zero Boys,
Ten City,
Lalann,
Crime,
Pharoah Sanders,
Cal Tjader,
Cecil Taylor,
Rotary Connection,
Jerry's Kids,
In Retrospect,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tomorrow,
Terrestrial Tones,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.