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 Paraguay and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Beijing.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Joe Smooth to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a R.M.O. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Patti Smith,
Gang of Four,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Kinks,
The Invisible,
Moby Grape,
Boredoms,
The Monochrome Set,
These Immortal Souls,
The Buckinghams,
Bill Wells,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ten City,
Pantytec,
The Evens,
The Flesh Eaters,
Brick,
Carl Craig,
Livin' Joy,
The Cure,
Can,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Electric Prunes,
Scott Walker,
Anakelly,
Joyce Sims,
Marmalade,
Trumans Water,
Mad Mike,
Dorothy Ashby,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cameo,
Bobby Sherman,
The Remains,
Sällskapet,
Sunsets and Hearts,
AZ,
Ornette Coleman,
Aswad,
The Five Americans,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed,
Grandmaster Flash,
Black Moon,
Hashim,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Letta Mbulu,
R.M.O.,
The Residents,
K-Klass,
Rosa Yemen,
New Age Steppers,
The Pop Group,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Suicide,
OOIOO,
Minor Threat,
Los Fastidios,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.