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 Nicaragua and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the crunk 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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Groovy Waters,
Whodini,
Kenny Larkin,
Nick Fraelich,
Magma,
Rakim,
The Offenders,
Al Stewart,
Hot Snakes,
Rotary Connection,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dark Day,
Pagans,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Swans,
Lalann,
a-ha,
Joey Negro,
Ludus,
Agitation Free,
Matthew Bourne,
Gang Gang Dance,
Arcadia,
Joensuu 1685,
kango's stein massive,
Schoolly D,
Clear Light,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nirvana,
Sun City Girls,
The Young Rascals,
10cc,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crash Course in Science,
Iggy Pop,
Underground Resistance,
Colin Newman,
Soft Machine,
Minnie Riperton,
Interpol,
Althea and Donna,
Lungfish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Wake,
The Doors,
Sarah Menescal,
ABC,
The Searchers,
The American Breed,
UT,
Maurizio,
Royal Trux,
Urselle,
the Human League,
Camberwell Now,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Raincoats,
The Real Kids,
The Dead C,
Scott Walker,
Aaron Thompson,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.