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 Iran and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 ABBA to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya 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 a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Q65,
Niagra,
R.M.O.,
Kurtis Blow,
Animal Collective,
The Black Dice,
The Offenders,
The Dave Clark Five,
Toni Rubio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Brick,
Connie Case,
Can,
Negative Approach,
Easy Going,
The Fugs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Oneida,
Lalann,
The Cowsills,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Bananas,
Flipper,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Carl Craig,
OOIOO,
Siglo XX,
Kayak,
Agent Orange,
The Last Poets,
John Lydon,
Sparks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Vainqueur,
Jacques Brel,
Kaleidoscope,
Pylon,
Sandy B,
Althea and Donna,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rufus Thomas,
Jandek,
The Gories,
Television Personalities,
Camouflage,
Severed Heads,
Bronski Beat,
Archie Shepp,
Pierre Henry,
The Moleskins,
Gregory Isaacs,
MC5,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.