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 Ethiopia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Altered Images to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
FM Einheit,
Quando Quango,
Roxy Music,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Susan Cadogan,
The Durutti Column,
Faust,
Gang Green,
Steve Hackett,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sandy B,
UT,
Erykah Badu,
The Residents,
The Kinks,
Arab on Radar,
The Raincoats,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Country Joe & The Fish,
Faraquet,
The Sonics,
Dawn Penn,
Negative Approach,
Sexual Harrassment,
Delta 5,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Todd Rundgren,
Darondo,
Gabor Szabo,
Tomorrow,
Jandek,
Bill Near,
Soul Sonic Force,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Adolescents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Danielle Patucci,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Letta Mbulu,
Soft Cell,
The Leaves,
Newcleus,
Skriet,
The Angels of Light,
ABC,
Trumans Water,
Idris Muhammad,
Boogie Down Productions,
Zapp,
Tubeway Army,
Model 500,
Monolake,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Music Machine,
Gang of Four,
Eric Dolphy,
MC5,
KRS-One,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.