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 Malaysia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Calgary.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Selecter to the dance 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
CMW,
Wally Richardson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Josef K,
Ten City,
The Fall,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marvin Gaye,
Can,
The Leaves,
The Gun Club,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Roxy Music,
Dennis Brown,
Bill Near,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Bar-Kays,
Cheater Slicks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Sonics,
Lindisfarne,
E-Dancer,
Bobby Byrd,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Blossom Toes,
Juan Atkins,
Eurythmics,
Bobby Womack,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
48th St. Collective,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cymande,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nico,
Brand Nubian,
the Germs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Suburban Knight,
Tears for Fears,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nick Fraelich,
Rakim,
Outsiders,
Funkadelic,
Circle Jerks,
MC5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rekid,
Soul Sonic Force,
Moebius,
Y Pants,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Robert Görl,
Fatback Band,
Sun City Girls,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras.
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.