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 Nepal and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Invisible to the jazz 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Zero Boys,
Pantaleimon,
Negative Approach,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Graham Central Station,
Skaos,
The New Christs,
The Doors,
Peter & Gordon,
Moby Grape,
David Bowie,
Dark Day,
Faust,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jandek,
The Slits,
Fat Boys,
The Gap Band,
Arthur Verocai,
The Slackers,
Deepchord,
Symarip,
Cluster,
Angry Samoans,
Chris & Cosey,
Roxy Music,
Au Pairs,
Boz Scaggs,
Glambeats Corp.,
China Crisis,
The Fortunes,
The Pretty Things,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Donald Byrd,
the Normal,
Reuben Wilson,
Zapp,
Sugar Minott,
Glenn Branca,
Lou Christie,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Man Parrish,
Dead Boys,
Warren Ellis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ornette Coleman,
Minor Threat,
Gichy Dan,
Rakim,
Avey Tare,
Kurtis Blow,
The Sonics,
David McCallum,
Crooked Eye,
Massinfluence,
Prince Buster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.