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 Mauritius and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Holger Czukay 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 Gories to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Shuggie Otis,
Isaac Hayes,
This Heat,
Fat Boys,
48th St. Collective,
Ultimate Spinach,
Wally Richardson,
Warsaw,
Q and Not U,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Remains,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Gun Club,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Pus,
The Searchers,
DJ Style,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Fire Engines,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sparks,
Lower 48,
Infiniti,
Carl Craig,
The Neon Judgement,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Doobie Brothers,
Qualms,
the Association,
The Seeds,
Marine Girls,
Electric Prunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Drexciya,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Avey Tare,
Todd Terry,
The Fugs,
Niagra,
Eli Mardock,
Man Eating Sloth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fluxion,
Gang Starr,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Red Krayola,
Q65,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
T.S.O.L.,
The Standells,
Ultravox,
Depeche Mode,
Flash Fearless,
Mr. Review,
Boredoms,
Pulsallama,
The Human League,
Don Cherry,
Oblivians,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.