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 Sweden and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Columbus and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Holger Czukay 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 Kevin Saunderson to the rock 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Jeff Lynne,
Graham Central Station,
Bronski Beat,
The Motions,
The Slackers,
Parry Music,
The Trojans,
Lou Reed,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grandmaster Flash,
Minor Threat,
Rakim,
Sex Pistols,
David McCallum,
Ralphi Rosario,
Stetsasonic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Wire,
Aloha Tigers,
Shuggie Otis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Sonics,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Swans,
Q and Not U,
The Offenders,
Hashim,
Tommy Roe,
Chris Corsano,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang of Four,
Traffic Nightmare,
Blancmange,
Monolake,
Johnny Clarke,
The Buckinghams,
CMW,
kango's stein massive,
Chris & Cosey,
Supertramp,
Colin Newman,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Barracudas,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jerry's Kids,
Das Ding,
Sandy B,
the Normal,
Sister Nancy,
Deakin,
Delta 5,
Roger Hodgson,
Scrapy,
The New Christs,
X-Ray Spex,
UT,
Rotary Connection,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.