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 Andorra and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Jawbox 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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fortunes,
Camberwell Now,
The Trojans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rapeman,
Tim Buckley,
The Happenings,
Ludus,
Qualms,
Echospace,
Henry Cow,
Kevin Saunderson,
Derrick Morgan,
Sandy B,
kango's stein massive,
Unrelated Segments,
The Techniques,
Eric Dolphy,
Bill Near,
Erasure,
Technova,
Cheater Slicks,
Patti Smith,
Brick,
Marine Girls,
Ken Boothe,
Alton Ellis,
Tom Boy,
Arthur Verocai,
Brass Construction,
MDC,
Gerry Rafferty,
John Foxx,
Main Source,
Jacques Brel,
Pharoah Sanders,
Scion,
Shuggie Otis,
R.M.O.,
The Barracudas,
Sonny Sharrock,
Aloha Tigers,
Little Man,
Simply Red,
Intrusion,
Brothers Johnson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sam Rivers,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Moleskins,
the Germs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David Bowie,
The Cowsills,
Reuben Wilson,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.