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 Cape Verde and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 June Days to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
X-101,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Los Fastidios,
The Vogues,
Yaz,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pere Ubu,
Qualms,
Skriet,
The Selecter,
Dawn Penn,
Inner City,
Loose Ends,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Soft Cell,
E-Dancer,
Michelle Simonal,
Barclay James Harvest,
A Certain Ratio,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Khruangbin,
Joe Finger,
The Saints,
Robert Hood,
June of 44,
The Fire Engines,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Sheep,
Roxy Music,
Jerry's Kids,
Maurizio,
Darondo,
The Moody Blues,
K-Klass,
Lebanon Hanover,
John Lydon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Flash Fearless,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Buckinghams,
Can,
Gichy Dan,
The Real Kids,
Godley & Creme,
Kas Product,
The Index,
Black Moon,
Average White Band,
Albert Ayler,
Swans,
The Offenders,
Jacques Brel,
kango's stein massive,
Alison Limerick,
Public Enemy,
Sister Nancy,
Leonard Cohen,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.