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 Latvia and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Television Personalities to the punk 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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Morten Harket,
Radio Birdman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Talk Talk,
Pylon,
Animal Collective,
Mars,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gang Starr,
The Real Kids,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rhythm & Sound,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Panda Bear,
Brand Nubian,
The Saints,
Tim Buckley,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Danielle Patucci,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fire Engines,
The Shadows of Knight,
Anthony Braxton,
The Seeds,
Henry Cow,
Arthur Verocai,
Joe Finger,
U.S. Maple,
Andrew Hill,
Pet Shop Boys,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Moby Grape,
Bluetip,
Marc Almond,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Gap Band,
Little Man,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jesper Dahlback,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Walker Brothers,
Adolescents,
Camberwell Now,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Sound,
Buzzcocks,
Yazoo,
Kurtis Blow,
The Doors,
Funky Four + One,
Alphaville,
Lucky Dragons,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bobby Byrd,
Ituana,
Desert Stars,
Zapp,
The Evens,
Rekid,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.