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 Gabon and from Houston.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Lou Reed to the jazz 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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Spandau Ballet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Walker Brothers,
Bob Dylan,
KRS-One,
Los Fastidios,
Tears for Fears,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ten City,
Massinfluence,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Swans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The New Christs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Beau Brummels,
The Martian,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
James Chance & The Contortions,
One Last Wish,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Unrelated Segments,
Roy Ayers,
Depeche Mode,
Joe Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
R.M.O.,
A Certain Ratio,
Lalann,
the Soft Cell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Yazoo,
The Cramps,
Brothers Johnson,
Gichy Dan,
The Modern Lovers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Todd Terry,
Janne Schatter,
kango's stein massive,
Liliput,
Intrusion,
Bill Near,
Blossom Toes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Neon Judgement,
Sun City Girls,
Letta Mbulu,
the Association,
Neil Young,
Howard Jones,
Quadrant,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tres Demented,
The Human League,
Sam Rivers,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.