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 Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Hong Kong.
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 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 The Flesh Eaters to the grunge 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Pere Ubu,
Flipper,
Ralphi Rosario,
Television,
the Human League,
Harry Pussy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Simply Red,
Masters at Work,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Divine Comedy,
Soft Machine,
Aswad,
Radiopuhelimet,
Unwound,
Lungfish,
Pierre Henry,
John Coltrane,
T. Rex,
The Fall,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pet Shop Boys,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eli Mardock,
Brick,
Steve Hackett,
The Golliwogs,
Motorama,
U.S. Maple,
Oneida,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Model 500,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Urselle,
Grauzone,
Hot Snakes,
Tommy Roe,
Minutemen,
The Litter,
Panda Bear,
Gang of Four,
Kerri Chandler,
Faraquet,
The Velvet Underground,
Swell Maps,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Connie Case,
Scion,
The Smoke,
Stetsasonic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wings,
Gichy Dan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Intrusion,
Pantaleimon,
Desert Stars,
Eve St. Jones,
Joe Finger,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.