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 Taiwan and from Tehran.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Flash Fearless to the funk 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Simply Red,
Lungfish,
Cal Tjader,
Guru Guru,
Rapeman,
The Litter,
Patti Smith,
Spandau Ballet,
Altered Images,
Nik Kershaw,
Sällskapet,
Stereo Dub,
Slick Rick,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
John Foxx,
Crime,
Chris & Cosey,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Soft Cell,
Drexciya,
Morten Harket,
Yusef Lateef,
Bobby Sherman,
the Germs,
The Martian,
Lalann,
Spoonie Gee,
The Music Machine,
Agitation Free,
Althea and Donna,
Flipper,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
World's Most,
Lightning Bolt,
Eli Mardock,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
CMW,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Trojans,
Japan,
Aural Exciters,
Sight & Sound,
Archie Shepp,
Masters at Work,
The Moleskins,
Barrington Levy,
MC5,
EPMD,
Mark Hollis,
Brothers Johnson,
DNA,
Todd Terry,
Jeff Mills,
Livin' Joy,
Trumans Water,
Moby Grape,
Qualms,
LL Cool J,
Stockholm Monsters,
Barbara Tucker,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.