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 Zimbabwe and from London.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Mars to the crunk 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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Essential Logic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alison Limerick,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Last Poets,
Boz Scaggs,
Eli Mardock,
The Skatalites,
Barclay James Harvest,
Wings,
Yazoo,
Fluxion,
Ossler,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eurythmics,
Amazonics,
Janne Schatter,
Jawbox,
Shuggie Otis,
Slave,
Toni Rubio,
Ice-T,
The Zeros,
The Human League,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Danielle Patucci,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scrapy,
Throbbing Gristle,
Byron Stingily,
The Remains,
Eden Ahbez,
cv313,
Radiopuhelimet,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Index,
Quando Quango,
Bill Wells,
The American Breed,
Monks,
The Five Americans,
Urselle,
The Sisters of Mercy,
KRS-One,
Mantronix,
Mark Hollis,
Goldenarms,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Detroit Cobras,
T. Rex,
Hoover,
Spandau Ballet,
Gastr Del Sol,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Byrd,
The Mojo Men,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Roy Ayers,
Joyce Sims,
Hashim,
The Names,
In Retrospect,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.