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 Thailand and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 güiro 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 The Happenings to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Ronnie Foster,
Interpol,
Main Source,
The Grass Roots,
UT,
Warren Ellis,
Television Personalities,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Glenn Branca,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cymande,
Iggy Pop,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Albert Ayler,
Oblivians,
Leonard Cohen,
Essential Logic,
Mad Mike,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roger Hodgson,
Roxy Music,
Dennis Brown,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Judy Mowatt,
The Mojo Men,
Surgeon,
Negative Approach,
Suburban Knight,
Reuben Wilson,
Sarah Menescal,
The Zeros,
Idris Muhammad,
Banda Bassotti,
Visage,
The Young Rascals,
Inner City,
Liliput,
Malaria!,
Curtis Mayfield,
Reagan Youth,
Toni Rubio,
Camouflage,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Alton Ellis,
Whodini,
The Buckinghams,
Johnny Clarke,
Yellowson,
The Standells,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Soul Sonic Force,
Juan Atkins,
Mission of Burma,
Suicide,
Dave Gahan,
Amon Düül,
Technova,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Five Americans,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.