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 Armenia and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Supertramp 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
CMW,
Leonard Cohen,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Misunderstood,
Tom Boy,
AZ,
Prince Buster,
Saccharine Trust,
MC5,
Ornette Coleman,
Gong,
The Last Poets,
The New Christs,
E-Dancer,
Stiv Bators,
Cluster,
Matthew Bourne,
10cc,
Scratch Acid,
Neil Young,
The Skatalites,
Camouflage,
Thompson Twins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Steve Hackett,
Chris Corsano,
The Gladiators,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Q65,
Ossler,
The Victims,
Alton Ellis,
Pulsallama,
Dave Gahan,
Youth Brigade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kerri Chandler,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
the Slits,
Big Daddy Kane,
Letta Mbulu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Trumans Water,
Quando Quango,
Bush Tetras,
Mary Jane Girls,
Half Japanese,
Roxy Music,
Glambeats Corp.,
OOIOO,
New Order,
The Vogues,
The Red Krayola,
Gabor Szabo,
Lightning Bolt,
Josef K,
Q and Not U,
Chrome,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.