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 South Sudan and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Massinfluence to the disco 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Robert Wyatt,
Liliput,
Minny Pops,
The Remains,
Dawn Penn,
Lower 48,
Bauhaus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Masters at Work,
ABC,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Smoke,
Marmalade,
Jerry's Kids,
Harry Pussy,
Unrelated Segments,
Eli Mardock,
Tom Boy,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Sisters of Mercy,
James White and The Blacks,
Unwound,
Anakelly,
Soulsonic Force,
Sarah Menescal,
Kas Product,
The Index,
MC5,
48th St. Collective,
Audionom,
Brand Nubian,
Agitation Free,
Mary Jane Girls,
Newcleus,
Y Pants,
Eddi Front,
Kayak,
The Pop Group,
Depeche Mode,
The Saints,
The Tremeloes,
Average White Band,
Fear,
The Smiths,
Althea and Donna,
Gregory Isaacs,
Junior Murvin,
Make Up,
Barrington Levy,
The Black Dice,
The Residents,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Q and Not U,
Rotary Connection,
Monks,
Skarface,
Colin Newman,
Soft Cell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Avey Tare,
The Sonics,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.