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 Vietnam and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar 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 Bad Manners to the techno 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dave Gahan,
Cluster,
Procol Harum,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Oblivians,
Zapp,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Donald Byrd,
Marine Girls,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Grass Roots,
Rosa Yemen,
Eric Copeland,
The Remains,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Vogues,
Black Pus,
Wire,
Eyeless In Gaza,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dark Day,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Henry Cow,
Boz Scaggs,
Zero Boys,
Iggy Pop,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camberwell Now,
Althea and Donna,
Mo-Dettes,
David Bowie,
Ituana,
Letta Mbulu,
AZ,
Gang Starr,
Charles Mingus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Circle Jerks,
Toni Rubio,
Kayak,
Jacob Miller,
Metal Thangz,
Malaria!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Skatalites,
Radiopuhelimet,
Steve Hackett,
Soulsonic Force,
The Zeros,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rod Modell,
Siglo XX,
MDC,
Mars,
Silicon Teens,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.