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 Zambia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the techno 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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grey Daturas,
Bronski Beat,
Joyce Sims,
The Dead C,
Grauzone,
Marc Almond,
Donald Byrd,
the Slits,
Connie Case,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eurythmics,
Surgeon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brick,
Kerri Chandler,
Robert Hood,
Soul Sonic Force,
L. Decosne,
Tim Buckley,
Peter and Kerry,
Suicide,
Howard Jones,
The Flesh Eaters,
Robert Wyatt,
MDC,
Eric Dolphy,
June of 44,
The Searchers,
The Trojans,
The Mummies,
John Holt,
F. McDonald,
The Slackers,
The Barracudas,
Black Flag,
Television,
Eden Ahbez,
Shuggie Otis,
Sonic Youth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lungfish,
Rufus Thomas,
Niagra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Terry Callier,
Throbbing Gristle,
Wolf Eyes,
PIL,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kayak,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
DNA,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soft Machine,
Marine Girls,
Symarip,
Faust,
T. Rex,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.