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 Israel and from Bologna.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Arcadia to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Los Fastidios,
Ten City,
Alison Limerick,
Livin' Joy,
John Foxx,
Yazoo,
Symarip,
Toni Rubio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Shoche,
Radio Birdman,
Isaac Hayes,
Todd Rundgren,
The Standells,
The Doors,
Basic Channel,
Charles Mingus,
Delon & Dalcan,
Moebius,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eve St. Jones,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ohio Players,
Nation of Ulysses,
Boogie Down Productions,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tropical Tobacco,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Index,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nas,
Josef K,
One Last Wish,
Oblivians,
Panda Bear,
The Smiths,
Schoolly D,
Mark Hollis,
Easy Going,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Velvet Underground,
Mars,
Country Teasers,
Alphaville,
Byron Stingily,
Sarah Menescal,
DJ Sneak,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Barry Ungar,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
8 Eyed Spy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lungfish,
Young Marble Giants,
Porter Ricks,
PIL,
Deadbeat,
John Coltrane,
Kenny Larkin,
Depeche Mode,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.