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 Maldives and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 Crash Course in Science to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Carl Craig,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Loose Ends,
Joe Smooth,
Cheater Slicks,
Jeff Mills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Busters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Massinfluence,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moebius,
Matthew Halsall,
LL Cool J,
Kenny Larkin,
Black Flag,
Quadrant,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Iggy Pop,
The Durutti Column,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
X-102,
Suicide,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Stooges,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Monolake,
Marvin Gaye,
The Happenings,
Sandy B,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Minnie Riperton,
X-Ray Spex,
48th St. Collective,
Public Image Ltd.,
Masters at Work,
The Sound,
Tim Buckley,
Gregory Isaacs,
Idris Muhammad,
Parry Music,
Lower 48,
The Invisible,
Kaleidoscope,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Zeros,
Alice Coltrane,
Curtis Mayfield,
Yellowson,
Marmalade,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sixth Finger,
Amazonics,
Nick Fraelich,
Scrapy,
UT,
Michelle Simonal,
Television,
Technova,
Hashim,
The Monochrome Set,
ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC.
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.