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 Kenya and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 spring reverb 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 Blake Baxter to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Bronski Beat,
Marine Girls,
David McCallum,
Black Moon,
Moss Icon,
ABC,
Rufus Thomas,
Skarface,
Chrome,
Freddie Wadling,
Stereo Dub,
Boz Scaggs,
Steve Hackett,
Al Stewart,
Peter and Kerry,
Mission of Burma,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DNA,
Ronan,
Jerry's Kids,
UT,
Ituana,
Nico,
Negative Approach,
MC5,
Big Daddy Kane,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Aloha Tigers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Nirvana,
The Velvet Underground,
Tommy Roe,
L. Decosne,
Sugar Minott,
Bluetip,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Throbbing Gristle,
Television Personalities,
The Angels of Light,
The Associates,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Walker Brothers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jeff Lynne,
Arab on Radar,
John Foxx,
The Victims,
Pharoah Sanders,
Marvin Gaye,
The Motions,
Flash Fearless,
Absolute Body Control,
Whodini,
Kayak,
Bobby Sherman,
Althea and Donna,
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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.