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 Czech Republic and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 J.B.'s to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
MDC,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kaleidoscope,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
This Heat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Depeche Mode,
Liliput,
Marine Girls,
The New Christs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roger Hodgson,
Flipper,
Wasted Youth,
Scion,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Q and Not U,
World's Most,
Kerrie Biddell,
Oblivians,
Dave Gahan,
The Sound,
The Monochrome Set,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pantaleimon,
Sonic Youth,
Warren Ellis,
Scan 7,
The Associates,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Motions,
Second Layer,
Talk Talk,
Todd Rundgren,
48th St. Collective,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tim Buckley,
The Sonics,
Au Pairs,
Shuggie Otis,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Morten Harket,
John Holt,
Parry Music,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sarah Menescal,
Blake Baxter,
Shoche,
Soft Cell,
Sixth Finger,
Bluetip,
The Leaves,
Adolescents,
Magma,
Agent Orange,
Thompson Twins,
New Order,
Kerri Chandler,
the Germs,
The Saints,
John Coltrane,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.