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 Colombia and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Anakelly to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Monks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Flipper,
Sonic Youth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Average White Band,
Barrington Levy,
The United States of America,
Rotary Connection,
Todd Terry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Remains,
Intrusion,
the Soft Cell,
Rites of Spring,
Michelle Simonal,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ludus,
The Walker Brothers,
Rakim,
The Vogues,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Zero Boys,
The Happenings,
Cluster,
World's Most,
Echospace,
Mission of Burma,
Au Pairs,
Cheater Slicks,
The Neon Judgement,
Albert Ayler,
Spoonie Gee,
The Names,
The Victims,
the Normal,
Arcadia,
Toni Rubio,
The Gories,
Boz Scaggs,
Crash Course in Science,
Technova,
The Red Krayola,
LL Cool J,
Joensuu 1685,
Los Fastidios,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Trojans,
Joyce Sims,
Harmonia,
Patti Smith,
Warren Ellis,
The Human League,
Nik Kershaw,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Yusef Lateef,
Lou Christie,
Swell Maps,
Aswad,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.