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 Slovakia and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Monochrome Set to the disco 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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David McCallum,
Section 25,
Marvin Gaye,
The Fall,
Michelle Simonal,
Mandrill,
Ken Boothe,
The Residents,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eurythmics,
Crispian St. Peters,
Massinfluence,
Joensuu 1685,
World's Most,
Aloha Tigers,
Jacob Miller,
F. McDonald,
Dark Day,
Barrington Levy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Technova,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Music Machine,
Sex Pistols,
Rod Modell,
Godley & Creme,
David Axelrod,
Pierre Henry,
the Soft Cell,
Scrapy,
Rotary Connection,
the Fania All-Stars,
B.T. Express,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Half Japanese,
The Invisible,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Flag,
10cc,
U.S. Maple,
Bush Tetras,
Ultra Naté,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kayak,
Amon Düül II,
Gang of Four,
Unwound,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Quando Quango,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lindisfarne,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Monochrome Set,
Mark Hollis,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.