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 Moldova and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Divine Comedy to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
The Doors,
the Swans,
kango's stein massive,
Unrelated Segments,
Grandmaster Flash,
Deepchord,
Shoche,
Rapeman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Connie Case,
Frankie Knuckles,
Neil Young,
Duran Duran,
Barbara Tucker,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
DJ Style,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Essential Logic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Au Pairs,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Siglo XX,
The Dead C,
Skriet,
Byron Stingily,
Boogie Down Productions,
Minor Threat,
Depeche Mode,
Max Romeo,
Moss Icon,
Tears for Fears,
Cheater Slicks,
Rod Modell,
Deadbeat,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Mummies,
The Grass Roots,
Procol Harum,
Bootsy Collins,
Steve Hackett,
Sonic Youth,
Lower 48,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quadrant,
Funky Four + One,
Stereo Dub,
Gong,
Nik Kershaw,
Reagan Youth,
Rufus Thomas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Banda Bassotti,
UT,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Icehouse,
The Blackbyrds,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.