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 Yemen and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and London.
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 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 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 Sonic Youth to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
Joyce Sims,
These Immortal Souls,
Model 500,
Judy Mowatt,
Sparks,
Visage,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Byrd,
Royal Trux,
Sam Rivers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-101,
The Young Rascals,
Drexciya,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nirvana,
Cecil Taylor,
Fela Kuti,
Flipper,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jacques Brel,
Franke,
Section 25,
Eurythmics,
Eric Dolphy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Monolake,
Michelle Simonal,
Inner City,
Procol Harum,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Swans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Susan Cadogan,
Nation of Ulysses,
Babytalk,
Wally Richardson,
the Slits,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
H. Thieme,
Wolf Eyes,
Harry Pussy,
Crispian St. Peters,
Livin' Joy,
Danielle Patucci,
Quadrant,
Zero Boys,
The Durutti Column,
Infiniti,
Schoolly D,
Rod Modell,
Gastr Del Sol,
Roxy Music,
Delta 5,
Mark Hollis,
The Stooges,
Black Flag,
Ultravox,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kurtis Blow,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.