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 Haiti and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Tim Buckley to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Parry Music,
Faraquet,
FM Einheit,
Pantaleimon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sugar Minott,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Graham Central Station,
Gregory Isaacs,
Amazonics,
Slave,
The Black Dice,
The Remains,
Desert Stars,
Anakelly,
The Cure,
Kool Moe Dee,
Prince Buster,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lou Reed,
Lucky Dragons,
Rosa Yemen,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Zero Boys,
UT,
Nils Olav,
Television Personalities,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jacob Miller,
Derrick May,
Skriet,
Nas,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pantytec,
Roxette,
Brand Nubian,
The Red Krayola,
Index,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Infiniti,
Stetsasonic,
The Dave Clark Five,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Model 500,
Siglo XX,
Severed Heads,
the Slits,
Barry Ungar,
The Associates,
The Dirtbombs,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Moon,
Bill Near,
Half Japanese,
Gang of Four,
Negative Approach,
Idris Muhammad,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Saints,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.