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 Montenegro and from Lille.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Winnipeg.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sonics to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All The Vogues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Bootsy Collins,
Joy Division,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Deadbeat,
Piero Umiliani,
a-ha,
Subhumans,
Model 500,
Popol Vuh,
Eurythmics,
Soul Sonic Force,
KRS-One,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eric Copeland,
Funky Four + One,
Moebius,
Goldenarms,
Japan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fat Boys,
Dennis Brown,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fad Gadget,
Symarip,
New Order,
Half Japanese,
Simply Red,
Agitation Free,
Gichy Dan,
The Young Rascals,
Unwound,
The Sonics,
The Standells,
Rakim,
Adolescents,
Scrapy,
Malaria!,
Inner City,
LL Cool J,
Gerry Rafferty,
Audionom,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bill Near,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Shadows of Knight,
Moss Icon,
The Skatalites,
The Cosmic Jokers,
ABBA,
Theoretical Girls,
Grauzone,
The Martian,
Tres Demented,
Saccharine Trust,
Thee Headcoats,
Accadde A,
Warsaw,
The Happenings,
Slave,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.