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 Indonesia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 arpeggiator 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 Crash Course in Science to the disco 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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
MDC,
Tommy Roe,
Terry Callier,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Moody Blues,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Graham Central Station,
The Invisible,
Marine Girls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gabor Szabo,
Symarip,
Rapeman,
Icehouse,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Franke,
Country Teasers,
Funkadelic,
Prince Buster,
Iggy Pop,
The Young Rascals,
Agitation Free,
John Foxx,
Delta 5,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Can,
K-Klass,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bobby Sherman,
Al Stewart,
Bang On A Can,
John Holt,
The Mummies,
Radio Birdman,
Rod Modell,
Johnny Clarke,
Nils Olav,
Minor Threat,
Excepter,
Q and Not U,
Little Man,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Susan Cadogan,
Fela Kuti,
Faust,
Sarah Menescal,
Das Ding,
The Neon Judgement,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joe Finger,
Radiohead,
Joensuu 1685,
Average White Band,
David Bowie,
MC5,
Boz Scaggs,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.