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 Angola and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Copenhagen.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Siglo XX to the techno 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scientists,
The Young Rascals,
Panda Bear,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Knickerbockers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Theoretical Girls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Underground Resistance,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lou Reed,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
JFA,
Accadde A,
Judy Mowatt,
FM Einheit,
the Germs,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Flamin' Groovies,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Motions,
Cybotron,
Kerrie Biddell,
Television,
Brand Nubian,
The Smoke,
Prince Buster,
Cymande,
Duran Duran,
Neil Young,
La Düsseldorf,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Visage,
Arab on Radar,
Nirvana,
Radiopuhelimet,
Schoolly D,
Q65,
Black Moon,
Deepchord,
The J.B.'s,
Sandy B,
Basic Channel,
Josef K,
World's Most,
The Dead C,
Young Marble Giants,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Procol Harum,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Henry Cow,
The Vogues,
The Trojans,
Flash Fearless,
The Neon Judgement,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.