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 Cameroon and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Blossom Toes to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Frankie Knuckles tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
48th St. Collective,
The Shadows of Knight,
Theoretical Girls,
The Dirtbombs,
Lower 48,
Deepchord,
The Golliwogs,
The Smoke,
The Happenings,
Grauzone,
Maleditus Sound,
The Blues Magoos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minnie Riperton,
X-102,
The Smiths,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cure,
Matthew Halsall,
Yaz,
Scientists,
Average White Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Black Dice,
Fear,
Roy Ayers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Youth Brigade,
New York Dolls,
Swans,
Eric Dolphy,
Visage,
JFA,
Lindisfarne,
New Order,
Johnny Clarke,
Darondo,
Los Fastidios,
The Human League,
Lucky Dragons,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bobby Womack,
Warsaw,
Echospace,
Gregory Isaacs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Unrelated Segments,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Techniques,
Bobby Sherman,
The Cowsills,
Magma,
David McCallum,
Michelle Simonal,
Prince Buster,
One Last Wish,
Index,
Todd Rundgren,
T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex.
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.