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 Dominica and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Accra.
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 harpsichord 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 The Happenings to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Vladislav Delay,
Siglo XX,
X-101,
The Index,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Soft Machine,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Theoretical Girls,
Lucky Dragons,
E-Dancer,
The Golliwogs,
Aloha Tigers,
Alphaville,
The Slits,
MDC,
Ten City,
Youth Brigade,
Ituana,
Alison Limerick,
The Tremeloes,
One Last Wish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Con Funk Shun,
Amon Düül II,
Vainqueur,
June Days,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Groovy Waters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Symarip,
Pagans,
Procol Harum,
The Blues Magoos,
Cymande,
Andrew Hill,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
JFA,
Ponytail,
Jesper Dahlback,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ken Boothe,
Agent Orange,
Howard Jones,
Stiv Bators,
Archie Shepp,
Sun Ra,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Velvet Underground,
Minor Threat,
The Cure,
Wings,
The Standells,
Slick Rick,
Essential Logic,
Funky Four + One,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Trumans Water,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.