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 the UAE and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Donald Fagen 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 Mandrill to the grime 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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Deakin,
Sixth Finger,
Mission of Burma,
Scan 7,
Second Layer,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pantytec,
cv313,
Ponytail,
ABBA,
Jerry's Kids,
The United States of America,
The Skatalites,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kenny Larkin,
Sparks,
Surgeon,
The Searchers,
Altered Images,
Lou Reed,
Aural Exciters,
The Residents,
Scratch Acid,
The Associates,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boredoms,
Barrington Levy,
Mark Hollis,
Amon Düül,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Junior Murvin,
Essential Logic,
Moby Grape,
Letta Mbulu,
The Electric Prunes,
Lower 48,
Swell Maps,
Connie Case,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hasil Adkins,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Soft Machine,
Lucky Dragons,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Soft Cell,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Supertramp,
Glambeats Corp.,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Slits,
K-Klass,
Ituana,
The Five Americans,
Delta 5,
Easy Going,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.