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 Montenegro and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Copenhagen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mr. Review. All the underground hits.
All Sex Pistols tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Vogues,
L. Decosne,
Bill Wells,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cheater Slicks,
Hardrive,
The Kinks,
Maurizio,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sister Nancy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
JFA,
LL Cool J,
Bauhaus,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ituana,
Pet Shop Boys,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kas Product,
Inner City,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bronski Beat,
June Days,
Banda Bassotti,
Barbara Tucker,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Sonics,
The Invisible,
Groovy Waters,
the Swans,
The Blackbyrds,
The Index,
the Association,
Crime,
Vladislav Delay,
Marcia Griffiths,
Mo-Dettes,
Chrome,
Lee Hazlewood,
Radio Birdman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Five Americans,
Rakim,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Model 500,
EPMD,
Funkadelic,
Lou Reed,
The Sound,
Suburban Knight,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Roy Ayers,
David Bowie,
B.T. Express,
Wally Richardson,
Iggy Pop,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jeff Lynne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.