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 Latvia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 theremin 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Lyres 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 crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Blossom Toes,
Cybotron,
Section 25,
Popol Vuh,
Shoche,
Average White Band,
Scan 7,
Joy Division,
LL Cool J,
The Flesh Eaters,
Swans,
Kurtis Blow,
Wire,
Theoretical Girls,
Throbbing Gristle,
Black Sheep,
Accadde A,
June of 44,
Metal Thangz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Talk Talk,
Porter Ricks,
Au Pairs,
Can,
Funky Four + One,
E-Dancer,
48th St. Collective,
Circle Jerks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Unrelated Segments,
Barry Ungar,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
U.S. Maple,
a-ha,
Funkadelic,
Symarip,
World's Most,
Siglo XX,
The Evens,
Tim Buckley,
Leonard Cohen,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Busters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Glambeats Corp.,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sparks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Andrew Hill,
Gang Gang Dance,
X-101,
Michelle Simonal,
The Alarm Clocks,
Royal Trux,
B.T. Express,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Alton Ellis,
New Order,
Barbara Tucker,
Lightning Bolt,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.