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 Senegal and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 snare 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 ABBA to the disco 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Steve Hackett record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Soulsonic Force,
Susan Cadogan,
Hasil Adkins,
Mantronix,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Barclay James Harvest,
Chris & Cosey,
The Slits,
The Walker Brothers,
Lou Christie,
The Fuzztones,
Idris Muhammad,
Erykah Badu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Godley & Creme,
La Düsseldorf,
Scrapy,
Yusef Lateef,
Shuggie Otis,
Derrick May,
Animal Collective,
Avey Tare,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sonics,
Barry Ungar,
the Germs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Letta Mbulu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Terry Callier,
The Gories,
Flipper,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ponytail,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
FM Einheit,
Ken Boothe,
Hashim,
Subhumans,
The Happenings,
Bill Wells,
T.S.O.L.,
Cameo,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Toasters,
R.M.O.,
Rakim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Robert Wyatt,
Procol Harum,
New Age Steppers,
Vainqueur,
MDC,
These Immortal Souls,
Flash Fearless,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Crash Course in Science,
Icehouse,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.