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 Botswana and from New York.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 808 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 The Cowsills to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
T. Rex,
The Sound,
Unwound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Chris Corsano,
The Modern Lovers,
The Star Department,
Traffic Nightmare,
Essential Logic,
Surgeon,
World's Most,
Groovy Waters,
Barbara Tucker,
Delta 5,
The Seeds,
The Gap Band,
Michelle Simonal,
JFA,
Organ,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
This Heat,
Man Eating Sloth,
Brick,
Peter and Kerry,
Niagra,
Mark Hollis,
Sällskapet,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sexual Harrassment,
Echospace,
Monks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Davy DMX,
Moebius,
Robert Görl,
China Crisis,
Outsiders,
The Offenders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Move,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sight & Sound,
Q and Not U,
Von Mondo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cal Tjader,
Mandrill,
Scott Walker,
Minutemen,
The Index,
Mars,
Marine Girls,
Make Up,
Godley & Creme,
Maurizio,
The Evens,
Johnny Clarke,
Excepter,
Theoretical Girls,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.