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 Slovenia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
The Tremeloes,
Newcleus,
Freddie Wadling,
Sister Nancy,
Pulsallama,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Morten Harket,
The Fire Engines,
Moby Grape,
Sixth Finger,
Cameo,
Aloha Tigers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Average White Band,
Bill Wells,
Tomorrow,
U.S. Maple,
The Remains,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ken Boothe,
Slick Rick,
Mantronix,
Gichy Dan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Trojans,
Robert Görl,
Infiniti,
Silicon Teens,
The Gap Band,
Graham Central Station,
the Sonics,
Pantytec,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Fall,
The Saints,
Fear,
Lower 48,
Television,
New Order,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Main Source,
The Litter,
Zapp,
Echospace,
Marine Girls,
The Shadows of Knight,
Essential Logic,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Brand Nubian,
FM Einheit,
Altered Images,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Standells,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marc Almond,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
T. Rex,
Jesper Dahlback,
Smog,
The Blackbyrds,
Ornette Coleman,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.