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 Russia and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 linndrum 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 Gang of Four to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sun City Girls,
Nick Fraelich,
Popol Vuh,
Peter & Gordon,
Yellowson,
Magazine,
Black Moon,
Easy Going,
Aaron Thompson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Public Enemy,
Scientists,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Warsaw,
F. McDonald,
Marc Almond,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
June Days,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Deepchord,
Eve St. Jones,
Wings,
K-Klass,
Bobby Byrd,
U.S. Maple,
KRS-One,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Vogues,
Eric Dolphy,
Fear,
Q and Not U,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Goldenarms,
Eddi Front,
Albert Ayler,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Normal,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sound Behaviour,
Suicide,
Franke,
Organ,
Tubeway Army,
Suburban Knight,
Liliput,
Iggy Pop,
Kas Product,
The Motions,
Alison Limerick,
Black Flag,
Big Daddy Kane,
Quadrant,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.