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 Vietnam and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Franke to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jeru the Damaja. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Circle Jerks,
Pere Ubu,
Underground Resistance,
The Divine Comedy,
Ossler,
Fad Gadget,
Silicon Teens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gabor Szabo,
Radio Birdman,
Roger Hodgson,
Parry Music,
Ronan,
The Martian,
World's Most,
Deepchord,
Minny Pops,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Hot Snakes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Barclay James Harvest,
Boz Scaggs,
Junior Murvin,
Clear Light,
Marc Almond,
OOIOO,
The United States of America,
Donald Byrd,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Grey Daturas,
Warren Ellis,
Brick,
This Heat,
Harry Pussy,
Fugazi,
Tommy Roe,
New Age Steppers,
the Human League,
DNA,
Main Source,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
A Certain Ratio,
Man Parrish,
The Monks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joe Smooth,
The Index,
Neil Young,
Fela Kuti,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Unwound,
The Young Rascals,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.