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 Latvia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 sitar 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 Television to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jacques Brel,
Drexciya,
Robert Görl,
Kas Product,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Main Source,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Flash Fearless,
The Star Department,
Youth Brigade,
Eli Mardock,
Dead Boys,
Clear Light,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Albert Ayler,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lightning Bolt,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
These Immortal Souls,
Joey Negro,
The Pretty Things,
Toni Rubio,
Gong,
Thee Headcoats,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Prince Buster,
Section 25,
Freddie Wadling,
Lou Christie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Derrick May,
Kerrie Biddell,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gregory Isaacs,
Agitation Free,
Television Personalities,
Visage,
June of 44,
Excepter,
The Offenders,
Matthew Halsall,
The Knickerbockers,
Spoonie Gee,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Grass Roots,
Deadbeat,
The Smoke,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sonny Sharrock,
Idris Muhammad,
The Fall,
The Electric Prunes,
The Fire Engines,
Glambeats Corp.,
La Düsseldorf,
Quadrant,
Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep.
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.