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 Vanuatu and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 chamberlin 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 Lucky Dragons to the disco 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fort Wilson Riot record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Swell Maps,
Tears for Fears,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pharoah Sanders,
Average White Band,
Dark Day,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Tubeway Army,
Tom Boy,
Vainqueur,
Loose Ends,
Hashim,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Brass Construction,
UT,
Hasil Adkins,
Cameo,
Scan 7,
Country Teasers,
Supertramp,
Jimmy McGriff,
Reuben Wilson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Drexciya,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter and Kerry,
Minutemen,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scion,
Soul II Soul,
Organ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soulsonic Force,
The Residents,
Los Fastidios,
Lalann,
Kaleidoscope,
Unwound,
Minor Threat,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Barbara Tucker,
Visage,
Sonic Youth,
Fad Gadget,
Dual Sessions,
The Divine Comedy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Radiohead,
The Knickerbockers,
Niagra,
Gang of Four,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Electric Prunes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sight & Sound,
Godley & Creme,
A Certain Ratio,
kango's stein massive,
The Blackbyrds,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.