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 Saudi Arabia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Hong Kong.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 X-102 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Au Pairs,
Agent Orange,
Wally Richardson,
Malaria!,
the Human League,
Dennis Brown,
Harmonia,
Joyce Sims,
Gichy Dan,
Electric Prunes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lakeside,
Supertramp,
Lebanon Hanover,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Circle Jerks,
Vladislav Delay,
B.T. Express,
Jimmy McGriff,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Siglo XX,
Basic Channel,
New Order,
Eric B and Rakim,
Dual Sessions,
Yusef Lateef,
Roxette,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Deakin,
Iggy Pop,
Oneida,
Crooked Eye,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sonic Youth,
Whodini,
The Mummies,
Sparks,
Moby Grape,
A Certain Ratio,
Lucky Dragons,
Sun City Girls,
Kayak,
D'Angelo,
The Associates,
Sonny Sharrock,
Judy Mowatt,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camberwell Now,
Pagans,
the Association,
Bobby Sherman,
X-101,
K-Klass,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Monks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Chrome,
Joy Division,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.