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 Azerbaijan and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the guitar 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 Mars to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Babytalk,
The Monochrome Set,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Main Source,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kas Product,
X-Ray Spex,
Technova,
Soulsonic Force,
The J.B.'s,
PIL,
Ohio Players,
Electric Prunes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Japan,
Kayak,
Joey Negro,
The Young Rascals,
Joensuu 1685,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Dirtbombs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Modern Lovers,
Scott Walker,
Eurythmics,
Icehouse,
Lou Christie,
Arab on Radar,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Neon Judgement,
Yellowson,
Rosa Yemen,
The Fugs,
Eric B and Rakim,
Brothers Johnson,
Blake Baxter,
the Germs,
Pet Shop Boys,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Erykah Badu,
Kerrie Biddell,
Marine Girls,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Grauzone,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Liliput,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dennis Brown,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Television,
The Human League,
Loose Ends,
Bob Dylan,
The Blues Magoos,
The Dead C,
the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays.
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.