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 Egypt and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Shadows of Knight to the grunge 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang of Four,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jerry's Kids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rakim,
Unwound,
The Birthday Party,
The United States of America,
Black Pus,
Joensuu 1685,
John Holt,
Pulsallama,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Stetsasonic,
Idris Muhammad,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sarah Menescal,
Ituana,
Faraquet,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Green,
Lou Reed,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alice Coltrane,
Radiohead,
The Count Five,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Vladislav Delay,
Eden Ahbez,
Dead Boys,
Skaos,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Negative Approach,
Gong,
Spoonie Gee,
The Misunderstood,
Sun City Girls,
Visage,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Model 500,
Janne Schatter,
Albert Ayler,
ABC,
Arab on Radar,
Crispian St. Peters,
Boredoms,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lungfish,
Jacques Brel,
The Saints,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Interpol,
Pierre Henry,
Dennis Brown,
Gabor Szabo,
Sex Pistols,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Q and Not U,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.