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 Romania 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Gil Scott Heron to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Bob Dylan,
Roger Hodgson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Zero Boys,
The Vogues,
Niagra,
Main Source,
Marmalade,
Black Bananas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fatback Band,
Organ,
Sparks,
Subhumans,
Fad Gadget,
Minor Threat,
Jacob Miller,
Audionom,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Skaos,
China Crisis,
Yazoo,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cameo,
Y Pants,
Sound Behaviour,
The Flesh Eaters,
Agitation Free,
New Order,
Schoolly D,
the Association,
FM Einheit,
The Kinks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Anakelly,
Nation of Ulysses,
This Heat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Swans,
Agent Orange,
Public Image Ltd.,
Quando Quango,
Jandek,
Dawn Penn,
48th St. Collective,
Black Flag,
The Five Americans,
Kurtis Blow,
F. McDonald,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
In Retrospect,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stiv Bators,
Scratch Acid,
Marine Girls,
Alton Ellis,
Barclay James Harvest,
Wire,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.