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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb 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 Spoonie Gee to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Index,
Alton Ellis,
The Index,
Porter Ricks,
Depeche Mode,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Whodini,
Dead Boys,
Moebius,
the Swans,
Aloha Tigers,
Saccharine Trust,
Eden Ahbez,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gang Green,
Lindisfarne,
Alice Coltrane,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Fear,
June Days,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mission of Burma,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mad Mike,
Make Up,
Johnny Osbourne,
Glenn Branca,
Cameo,
DNA,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Graham Central Station,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Silicon Teens,
Babytalk,
the Germs,
Schoolly D,
Los Fastidios,
T. Rex,
June of 44,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Hashim,
The Seeds,
the Bar-Kays,
Patti Smith,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fat Boys,
the Association,
The Neon Judgement,
The Move,
Skriet,
MC5,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Amon Düül,
Chris & Cosey,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sällskapet,
Black Moon,
Sound Behaviour,
Sparks,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.