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 Kosovo and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 guitar 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 Searchers to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fugazi record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Gil Scott Heron,
Byron Stingily,
Zapp,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Massinfluence,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobby Sherman,
Mission of Burma,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Man Eating Sloth,
Mark Hollis,
48th St. Collective,
Index,
Henry Cow,
B.T. Express,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chrome,
Pet Shop Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lucky Dragons,
Hasil Adkins,
Vainqueur,
The Fortunes,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Talk Talk,
X-Ray Spex,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Parry Music,
Tropical Tobacco,
Charles Mingus,
Amazonics,
the Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rufus Thomas,
Au Pairs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Porter Ricks,
T.S.O.L.,
Slick Rick,
Thee Headcoats,
Malaria!,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Royal Trux,
Letta Mbulu,
Icehouse,
Rekid,
Section 25,
Anakelly,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Laurel Aitken,
Lebanon Hanover,
Spoonie Gee,
T. Rex,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Soft Machine,
Avey Tare,
UT,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.