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 Mauritania and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Blake Baxter to the punk 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Brand Nubian,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skarface,
Rufus Thomas,
Jawbox,
Animal Collective,
Groovy Waters,
DJ Sneak,
Minutemen,
CMW,
John Cale,
Prince Buster,
The Dead C,
The Misunderstood,
T. Rex,
Buzzcocks,
One Last Wish,
Derrick Morgan,
Harry Pussy,
Drexciya,
Peter & Gordon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
FM Einheit,
Gong,
Reuben Wilson,
Severed Heads,
Average White Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Byrd,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Al Stewart,
the Sonics,
Ohio Players,
Ultravox,
Essential Logic,
Quantec,
Ten City,
Bad Manners,
The Last Poets,
Nik Kershaw,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Little Man,
The Happenings,
Outsiders,
Intrusion,
Faraquet,
The Slits,
Supertramp,
Technova,
Tommy Roe,
The Modern Lovers,
Ituana,
Rosa Yemen,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Flag,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.