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 Lebanon and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Minutemen to the jazz 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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Country Teasers,
Gang Starr,
Eden Ahbez,
James White and The Blacks,
The New Christs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Five Americans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wings,
Franke,
Peter & Gordon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Junior Murvin,
Fear,
The Happenings,
Bill Near,
Babytalk,
Easy Going,
Susan Cadogan,
F. McDonald,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yazoo,
The Red Krayola,
Kerrie Biddell,
Henry Cow,
Cheater Slicks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Main Source,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sister Nancy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Names,
kango's stein massive,
Urselle,
The Barracudas,
Pere Ubu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Searchers,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Saints,
The J.B.'s,
Pharoah Sanders,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scott Walker,
Tom Boy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Radiohead,
L. Decosne,
This Heat,
Josef K,
Toni Rubio,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.