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 Kazakhstan and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 marimba 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx to the jazz 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 the Germs. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Altered Images,
Soft Machine,
In Retrospect,
Youth Brigade,
Drive Like Jehu,
Popol Vuh,
Monks,
Severed Heads,
Joensuu 1685,
John Foxx,
Bizarre Inc.,
Zapp,
Eurythmics,
Scott Walker,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dave Gahan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Malaria!,
Gang Green,
Liliput,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ralphi Rosario,
Fad Gadget,
Eli Mardock,
Nas,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Invisible,
Sight & Sound,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kerri Chandler,
Sexual Harrassment,
Quando Quango,
Brass Construction,
Subhumans,
Sparks,
Mantronix,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Animal Collective,
Man Eating Sloth,
Pylon,
Marvin Gaye,
Thompson Twins,
China Crisis,
Reagan Youth,
Connie Case,
Pagans,
Ponytail,
Derrick Morgan,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Slick Rick,
Mars,
B.T. Express,
Faraquet,
Don Cherry,
The Young Rascals,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.