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 Samoa and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Taipei.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Jerry's Kids to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues 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 a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Ohio Players,
Ituana,
the Fania All-Stars,
Fela Kuti,
Robert Wyatt,
Pere Ubu,
Saccharine Trust,
Joey Negro,
The Blues Magoos,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Sound,
EPMD,
Bluetip,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Easy Going,
Country Teasers,
the Human League,
Tropical Tobacco,
Arcadia,
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Slackers,
Average White Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Basic Channel,
June of 44,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Fugs,
Soul II Soul,
Procol Harum,
The Walker Brothers,
Maurizio,
Suburban Knight,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kas Product,
cv313,
Siglo XX,
Terrestrial Tones,
K-Klass,
Quadrant,
Traffic Nightmare,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nik Kershaw,
Mantronix,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Neon Judgement,
Cal Tjader,
Derrick May,
Fatback Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Fall,
ABBA,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Delta 5,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Organ,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Letta Mbulu,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.