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 Austria and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 E-Dancer to the rock 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 David Bowie. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Q and Not U,
The Martian,
Funky Four + One,
The Standells,
Erasure,
Roger Hodgson,
The Searchers,
Yazoo,
Minor Threat,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tim Buckley,
U.S. Maple,
The Fire Engines,
Vladislav Delay,
Half Japanese,
Cal Tjader,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Roxy Music,
Bluetip,
Unwound,
Warren Ellis,
Excepter,
L. Decosne,
Sonic Youth,
Buzzcocks,
Todd Terry,
Maurizio,
Davy DMX,
Lindisfarne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anthony Braxton,
Alphaville,
Bad Manners,
Porter Ricks,
Aloha Tigers,
Panda Bear,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Bananas,
Sister Nancy,
Camouflage,
Brick,
Al Stewart,
OOIOO,
the Slits,
Marvin Gaye,
Scion,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Popol Vuh,
Soul Sonic Force,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Music Machine,
Siglo XX,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bobby Sherman,
Procol Harum,
Pussy Galore,
Chris Corsano,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.