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 Switzerland and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Winnipeg.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sight & Sound to the grunge 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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Echospace,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Steve Hackett,
Ronan,
MDC,
Whodini,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Trumans Water,
Index,
Hoover,
Zapp,
Wally Richardson,
Crooked Eye,
Make Up,
Pet Shop Boys,
Derrick May,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
PIL,
Con Funk Shun,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jandek,
Danielle Patucci,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Qualms,
Eve St. Jones,
Cal Tjader,
Piero Umiliani,
Jeff Mills,
Fad Gadget,
Man Parrish,
Skaos,
Schoolly D,
Hot Snakes,
kango's stein massive,
Matthew Bourne,
The Stooges,
Cheater Slicks,
The Dirtbombs,
Urselle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cecil Taylor,
Tom Boy,
The Techniques,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Easy Going,
John Coltrane,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Soft Cell,
Cluster,
Stockholm Monsters,
Desert Stars,
T. Rex,
Country Teasers,
Warsaw,
Todd Rundgren,
Scratch Acid,
La Düsseldorf,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.