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 Denmark and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Unwound,
David Axelrod,
Ultra Naté,
Symarip,
Lyres,
Silicon Teens,
The Remains,
Faust,
Television,
Roxette,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lower 48,
Aloha Tigers,
Popol Vuh,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gang Green,
the Normal,
Q65,
Lou Christie,
Lee Hazlewood,
Loose Ends,
Derrick Morgan,
Brothers Johnson,
The Birthday Party,
Don Cherry,
Michelle Simonal,
The Velvet Underground,
Avey Tare,
Bad Manners,
Technova,
Eric Dolphy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Pretty Things,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Robert Görl,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Aaron Thompson,
Stetsasonic,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wings,
Banda Bassotti,
Sun City Girls,
Goldenarms,
Mo-Dettes,
Judy Mowatt,
Albert Ayler,
Sällskapet,
Easy Going,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Archie Shepp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Sheep,
The Star Department,
Johnny Clarke,
Reuben Wilson,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.