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 Marshall Islands and from Taipei.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 10cc to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Simply Red record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Groovy Waters,
The Fuzztones,
Clear Light,
OOIOO,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
John Holt,
The Golliwogs,
Silicon Teens,
Sonic Youth,
Lungfish,
New Order,
Grey Daturas,
Y Pants,
Piero Umiliani,
Darondo,
Bob Dylan,
Rod Modell,
Brick,
Excepter,
Icehouse,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bootsy Collins,
Alphaville,
Sam Rivers,
Barbara Tucker,
Donald Byrd,
KRS-One,
The Human League,
Absolute Body Control,
Roxette,
Traffic Nightmare,
Can,
Qualms,
The Divine Comedy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Los Fastidios,
10cc,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wire,
a-ha,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
These Immortal Souls,
Janne Schatter,
Eurythmics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Crime,
Hot Snakes,
Dave Gahan,
Godley & Creme,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sun City Girls,
Todd Terry,
Aloha Tigers,
The Associates,
Ossler,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.