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 Gambia and from Mexico City.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 rhodes 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the disco 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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang on a Can All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Intrusion,
Motorama,
Jeff Lynne,
Radiohead,
Silicon Teens,
Bronski Beat,
Joe Smooth,
Brick,
Jerry's Kids,
Janne Schatter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Outsiders,
Peter & Gordon,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sun City Girls,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Buckinghams,
Electric Light Orchestra,
John Holt,
Pierre Henry,
The Doors,
Whodini,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Flesh Eaters,
Frankie Knuckles,
Unrelated Segments,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Circle Jerks,
Fugazi,
Fluxion,
The Electric Prunes,
The Misunderstood,
Swell Maps,
Tomorrow,
Fat Boys,
In Retrospect,
Eric Copeland,
48th St. Collective,
Todd Rundgren,
The Leaves,
Maurizio,
Kerri Chandler,
The Pop Group,
Lindisfarne,
Essential Logic,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Roxette,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Normal,
Pagans,
Fela Kuti,
Guru Guru,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alphaville,
Eden Ahbez,
Crispy Ambulance,
Shuggie Otis,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.