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 Singapore and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 David Bowie 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 EPMD to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Peter & Gordon,
Livin' Joy,
Josef K,
the Human League,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Von Mondo,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Wally Richardson,
The Five Americans,
Rotary Connection,
EPMD,
Todd Rundgren,
Matthew Bourne,
Aural Exciters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
L. Decosne,
OOIOO,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mandrill,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Main Source,
Agitation Free,
Radiohead,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed,
Tim Buckley,
Metal Thangz,
The Blackbyrds,
Nils Olav,
The Mummies,
The Birthday Party,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Blancmange,
Jandek,
Sun City Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
ABBA,
Gerry Rafferty,
Spoonie Gee,
Moebius,
The Happenings,
Cheater Slicks,
Bush Tetras,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Seeds,
Ossler,
Second Layer,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nas,
Quantec,
Grauzone,
Lower 48,
Swans,
Bad Manners,
MDC,
The Monochrome Set,
The Knickerbockers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Radio Birdman,
Marshall Jefferson,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.