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 Korea South and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Crispy Ambulance to the rock 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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry Gold Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soulsonic Force,
Underground Resistance,
The Moody Blues,
David McCallum,
Graham Central Station,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gastr Del Sol,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Masters at Work,
The Human League,
Anthony Braxton,
The New Christs,
the Bar-Kays,
The Gap Band,
MC5,
Judy Mowatt,
Maleditus Sound,
Nik Kershaw,
Harmonia,
The Real Kids,
Von Mondo,
Scan 7,
Pierre Henry,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rakim,
Vladislav Delay,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Intrusion,
Ultra Naté,
The Invisible,
Scientists,
Sun City Girls,
B.T. Express,
The Mojo Men,
Rekid,
Quadrant,
Robert Hood,
Fear,
Skaos,
Bauhaus,
Radio Birdman,
Easy Going,
ABBA,
Barrington Levy,
The Leaves,
Josef K,
Bootsy Collins,
Arcadia,
Ituana,
The Skatalites,
Sonic Youth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rotary Connection,
Yusef Lateef,
Depeche Mode,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
World's Most,
Boredoms,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.