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 Moldova and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Easy Going 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker 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 spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Alarm Clocks,
Chris Corsano,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Section 25,
Donny Hathaway,
Marc Almond,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Moss Icon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scratch Acid,
Chris & Cosey,
Glenn Branca,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Con Funk Shun,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Sonics,
Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
David Axelrod,
Animal Collective,
Crispy Ambulance,
Interpol,
Maurizio,
Barclay James Harvest,
Hasil Adkins,
Basic Channel,
The Martian,
Scion,
Magma,
Danielle Patucci,
Quantec,
Subhumans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Von Mondo,
Sandy B,
The Slackers,
Robert Wyatt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lebanon Hanover,
Letta Mbulu,
Sun Ra,
Adolescents,
the Association,
Average White Band,
DNA,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Amazonics,
Pylon,
The Cowsills,
the Human League,
Gang of Four,
Ice-T,
Outsiders,
Lalo Schifrin,
Moebius,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alice Coltrane,
Roger Hodgson,
June of 44,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.