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 United States and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
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 linndrum 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 Gong to the grime 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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
The Fall,
Audionom,
Johnny Clarke,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Happenings,
Dave Gahan,
The Golliwogs,
Crispy Ambulance,
Al Stewart,
Deakin,
Yusef Lateef,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Carl Craig,
Swans,
Franke,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Pop Group,
Vainqueur,
Henry Cow,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sun City Girls,
The Tremeloes,
Talk Talk,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Swell Maps,
Blancmange,
Blake Baxter,
Buzzcocks,
Cluster,
Fat Boys,
The Martian,
U.S. Maple,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Inner City,
Brand Nubian,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ultravox,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kerri Chandler,
Tommy Roe,
Silicon Teens,
Delta 5,
Pulsallama,
Sam Rivers,
Matthew Bourne,
Dark Day,
Hashim,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Electric Prunes,
The Motions,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Adolescents,
Lindisfarne,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
MC5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Wally Richardson,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.