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 Honduras and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pretty Things to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
48th St. Collective,
Josef K,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pole,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Holt,
Make Up,
Rufus Thomas,
Bronski Beat,
The Smoke,
Audionom,
Monks,
Rod Modell,
Traffic Nightmare,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pylon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Fall,
Surgeon,
Subhumans,
Bluetip,
Scratch Acid,
Eli Mardock,
Pharoah Sanders,
Boredoms,
Minor Threat,
Moss Icon,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Flag,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dennis Brown,
The Leaves,
Blossom Toes,
Juan Atkins,
the Sonics,
Alice Coltrane,
Unwound,
Skarface,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ken Boothe,
Amon Düül II,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Buckinghams,
Laurel Aitken,
The Cure,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ituana,
Bang On A Can,
AZ,
R.M.O.,
Niagra,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Tropical Tobacco,
Barry Ungar,
Porter Ricks,
Outsiders,
The Detroit Cobras,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donny Hathaway,
Electric Prunes,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.