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 Papua New Guinea and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar 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 Black Moon to the techno 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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Parry Music,
The Grass Roots,
Dual Sessions,
Ornette Coleman,
Joy Division,
Lou Christie,
Ronan,
Sight & Sound,
Soul Sonic Force,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Pretty Things,
Swell Maps,
The Kinks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fad Gadget,
The Toasters,
The Standells,
Bronski Beat,
Monolake,
Motorama,
Depeche Mode,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Flag,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kas Product,
Funkadelic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cecil Taylor,
Kerri Chandler,
Rakim,
Skriet,
Aswad,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
David McCallum,
Arthur Verocai,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yusef Lateef,
Adolescents,
Davy DMX,
Faraquet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Velvet Underground,
Terrestrial Tones,
Average White Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Normal,
Mars,
Lebanon Hanover,
John Coltrane,
Kerrie Biddell,
kango's stein massive,
Icehouse,
Talk Talk,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roxette,
Rekid,
Zero Boys,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.