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 Mali and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 Winnipeg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 spring reverb 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 June Days to the rock 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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Nils Olav,
Ice-T,
Dead Boys,
Peter and Kerry,
Easy Going,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Chris & Cosey,
Scott Walker,
Erykah Badu,
Royal Trux,
Thee Headcoats,
The Skatalites,
Massinfluence,
The Leaves,
The Saints,
John Cale,
Aaron Thompson,
Minor Threat,
X-101,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Shoche,
Tres Demented,
Brick,
Freddie Wadling,
Soft Cell,
10cc,
Shuggie Otis,
Harmonia,
Roxette,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jeff Mills,
Curtis Mayfield,
Wings,
Darondo,
Chrome,
Marmalade,
The Last Poets,
Jandek,
Maurizio,
Bad Manners,
K-Klass,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nas,
Ultimate Spinach,
Con Funk Shun,
The American Breed,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moebius,
Marine Girls,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bauhaus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
June of 44,
the Fania All-Stars,
Arab on Radar,
Radiohead,
Das Ding,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.