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 Uganda and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Surgeon to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Quantec,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Christie,
Don Cherry,
Procol Harum,
Grauzone,
The Move,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Raincoats,
PIL,
Nirvana,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gichy Dan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Chris Corsano,
Thompson Twins,
The Zeros,
Moss Icon,
China Crisis,
X-102,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
David Axelrod,
Lakeside,
The New Christs,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Eli Mardock,
Brass Construction,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Frankie Knuckles,
Skaos,
The Misunderstood,
Black Flag,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Oblivians,
Cal Tjader,
Matthew Halsall,
Fugazi,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Moody Blues,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bad Manners,
Warsaw,
Big Daddy Kane,
Barbara Tucker,
The J.B.'s,
Sonic Youth,
The Gun Club,
EPMD,
This Heat,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Barracudas,
Radiohead,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Modern Lovers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.