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 France and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Minutemen to the rock 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Walker Brothers,
Jawbox,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Wings,
Sugar Minott,
JFA,
Terry Callier,
Danielle Patucci,
Duran Duran,
Eden Ahbez,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Heaven 17,
Siglo XX,
Smog,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Erasure,
Gastr Del Sol,
Boogie Down Productions,
David Bowie,
Lightning Bolt,
Dual Sessions,
Slick Rick,
Fear,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Public Image Ltd.,
Severed Heads,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Toasters,
Rod Modell,
Lalann,
Cybotron,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Piero Umiliani,
Peter & Gordon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nils Olav,
Hoover,
Quantec,
Dead Boys,
the Swans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Los Fastidios,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fat Boys,
Tomorrow,
Harry Pussy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Todd Rundgren,
Agitation Free,
Susan Cadogan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Warsaw,
U.S. Maple,
Yazoo,
Jacques Brel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Görl,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.