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 Cameroon and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the crunk 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 Germs. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Au Pairs,
Guru Guru,
Man Parrish,
LL Cool J,
Bill Near,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Siglo XX,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Brass Construction,
Con Funk Shun,
Connie Case,
Heaven 17,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ituana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Model 500,
Bush Tetras,
Moby Grape,
Dual Sessions,
Sixth Finger,
The Toasters,
Motorama,
Black Flag,
The Smiths,
Urselle,
Altered Images,
Marine Girls,
Pole,
This Heat,
Scratch Acid,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ralphi Rosario,
Khruangbin,
the Soft Cell,
Arthur Verocai,
Janne Schatter,
The Martian,
Blossom Toes,
EPMD,
D'Angelo,
Yazoo,
Alphaville,
Chris Corsano,
Carl Craig,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hoover,
Pantaleimon,
Marvin Gaye,
Eric Copeland,
X-102,
Freddie Wadling,
Gregory Isaacs,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gang of Four,
the Slits,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Monolake,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.