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 Tunisia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lebanon Hanover to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
Joensuu 1685,
L. Decosne,
Skaos,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Sonics,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
D'Angelo,
The Zeros,
Ten City,
Gong,
Section 25,
Jeff Lynne,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dead Boys,
Gregory Isaacs,
Flamin' Groovies,
Saccharine Trust,
Popol Vuh,
Sex Pistols,
Bronski Beat,
The Smiths,
David McCallum,
A Certain Ratio,
Sixth Finger,
Make Up,
Massinfluence,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eurythmics,
Rapeman,
Can,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Grandmaster Flash,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ossler,
Barry Ungar,
Cal Tjader,
Whodini,
Japan,
David Axelrod,
Lucky Dragons,
The J.B.'s,
DJ Sneak,
The Monochrome Set,
Deakin,
Scott Walker,
Duran Duran,
Bad Manners,
The Names,
Gang Green,
Easy Going,
Arcadia,
CMW,
Black Pus,
Moss Icon,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Wells,
Pylon,
James White and The Blacks,
The Move,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.