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 Venezuela and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sonic Youth to the grunge 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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
CMW,
Moss Icon,
Laurel Aitken,
Dark Day,
Isaac Hayes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Grass Roots,
K-Klass,
Unrelated Segments,
Agent Orange,
Michelle Simonal,
Pantytec,
Davy DMX,
The Fortunes,
Lower 48,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
DNA,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Skarface,
Ronan,
Slave,
Alison Limerick,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rapeman,
The Real Kids,
Anakelly,
Roxy Music,
Lou Reed,
Johnny Clarke,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ohio Players,
Sandy B,
the Sonics,
The Misunderstood,
Saccharine Trust,
Faust,
Au Pairs,
Hashim,
Los Fastidios,
The Trojans,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Smoke,
Unwound,
Accadde A,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Livin' Joy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Wings,
Ludus,
Soulsonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mark Hollis,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.