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 Lithuania and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 theremin 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the rock 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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Khruangbin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Johnny Osbourne,
Agent Orange,
Scientists,
Bill Near,
Isaac Hayes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Thompson Twins,
Prince Buster,
Pantaleimon,
Ken Boothe,
Fad Gadget,
Silicon Teens,
The Smiths,
These Immortal Souls,
Eve St. Jones,
Neu!,
Yazoo,
Black Bananas,
Dave Gahan,
Man Parrish,
Surgeon,
Arthur Verocai,
The Moleskins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stetsasonic,
Joe Finger,
PIL,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Standells,
The Offenders,
Don Cherry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sister Nancy,
Jeru the Damaja,
JFA,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Fuzztones,
The Golliwogs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Names,
Joy Division,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Searchers,
The Modern Lovers,
The Electric Prunes,
The Monochrome Set,
Nick Fraelich,
The Velvet Underground,
John Foxx,
The Zeros,
Vainqueur,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rosa Yemen,
Spoonie Gee,
Sparks,
Ronan,
Pierre Henry,
Sugar Minott,
Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics.
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.