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 Slovakia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Fuzztones to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Dual Sessions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
X-102,
ABBA,
The New Christs,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Tremeloes,
Essential Logic,
Bill Near,
Royal Trux,
The Gories,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rekid,
Warsaw,
Interpol,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jawbox,
In Retrospect,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kerri Chandler,
Joe Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Half Japanese,
Chris & Cosey,
The Smiths,
LL Cool J,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marc Almond,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
James White and The Blacks,
OOIOO,
Tres Demented,
Qualms,
Easy Going,
the Swans,
Pantytec,
Tom Boy,
Max Romeo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Searchers,
Derrick May,
Pierre Henry,
Ice-T,
Stiv Bators,
Letta Mbulu,
Crooked Eye,
Man Parrish,
Tears for Fears,
Rites of Spring,
The Victims,
Sight & Sound,
The Invisible,
Amon Düül II,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti.
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.