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 Bulgaria and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 China Crisis to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Pop Group,
Surgeon,
T. Rex,
John Holt,
Saccharine Trust,
Roxette,
Reagan Youth,
cv313,
The Birthday Party,
Bad Manners,
Echospace,
Suicide,
The Index,
Lindisfarne,
Albert Ayler,
The Cowsills,
Can,
Sam Rivers,
The Dirtbombs,
Sonic Youth,
EPMD,
Mantronix,
Eric Dolphy,
DJ Style,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Zeros,
Jeff Lynne,
This Heat,
Michelle Simonal,
Graham Central Station,
Infiniti,
Desert Stars,
Lyres,
Interpol,
Althea and Donna,
Ice-T,
Marmalade,
Stockholm Monsters,
Stetsasonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sister Nancy,
Deadbeat,
Amazonics,
Goldenarms,
Bang On A Can,
Quando Quango,
Soulsonic Force,
Basic Channel,
Easy Going,
Joensuu 1685,
the Normal,
Duran Duran,
Jandek,
Maleditus Sound,
AZ,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Niagra,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.