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 Zimbabwe and from New York.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 chamberlin 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Move,
Bang On A Can,
Newcleus,
Shoche,
Pierre Henry,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ice-T,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eddi Front,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rites of Spring,
Trumans Water,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Reagan Youth,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tom Boy,
The Star Department,
Matthew Halsall,
Boz Scaggs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ultravox,
The Blues Magoos,
Deepchord,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Angels of Light,
Funky Four + One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scan 7,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Barracudas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Reed,
Amon Düül,
Drive Like Jehu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rekid,
Das Ding,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grey Daturas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kaleidoscope,
Jandek,
Pulsallama,
ABBA,
Grauzone,
Ken Boothe,
Duran Duran,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Victims,
Mandrill,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roy Ayers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.