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 Ethiopia and from Glasgow.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Agent Orange to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Underground Resistance,
Circle Jerks,
Anthony Braxton,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marshall Jefferson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Pop Group,
Jandek,
Half Japanese,
Desert Stars,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Grauzone,
Q65,
Boz Scaggs,
Sound Behaviour,
Vainqueur,
Glenn Branca,
Magazine,
The Flesh Eaters,
Nirvana,
Steve Hackett,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Loose Ends,
Hardrive,
Grandmaster Flash,
Terry Callier,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Moebius,
Swell Maps,
Cybotron,
Gang Starr,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lyres,
The United States of America,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Slits,
Angry Samoans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Parry Music,
The Velvet Underground,
T.S.O.L.,
Fela Kuti,
Leonard Cohen,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Section 25,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harmonia,
DJ Sneak,
Ice-T,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sarah Menescal,
Deepchord,
PIL,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pole,
Gregory Isaacs,
Mo-Dettes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.