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 Senegal and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Men They Couldn't Hang to the punk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Supertramp,
Pharoah Sanders,
ABC,
Lindisfarne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Godley & Creme,
Tom Boy,
Deepchord,
Stetsasonic,
The Cure,
Boogie Down Productions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Letta Mbulu,
Ten City,
The Slits,
Jandek,
Altered Images,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Talk Talk,
Monolake,
June of 44,
Half Japanese,
Soulsonic Force,
Marine Girls,
DNA,
Fela Kuti,
Henry Cow,
The Fire Engines,
Dead Boys,
Infiniti,
In Retrospect,
Angry Samoans,
Kas Product,
Idris Muhammad,
The Star Department,
Carl Craig,
New Order,
Saccharine Trust,
Blake Baxter,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
DJ Sneak,
Rotary Connection,
Alison Limerick,
This Heat,
Grauzone,
The Pop Group,
Basic Channel,
Bush Tetras,
Stereo Dub,
Cymande,
The Pretty Things,
Wire,
The Smiths,
Urselle,
The Blackbyrds,
Zapp,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tropical Tobacco,
Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.