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 Australia and from Bremen.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 theremin 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 David McCallum to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gabor Szabo,
New Age Steppers,
Bobby Womack,
F. McDonald,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Althea and Donna,
Sixth Finger,
Jerry's Kids,
Dead Boys,
Visage,
Sarah Menescal,
Goldenarms,
Clear Light,
The Birthday Party,
Schoolly D,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dorothy Ashby,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Nils Olav,
Chris Corsano,
Lou Reed,
Michelle Simonal,
Janne Schatter,
Bauhaus,
Boredoms,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Peter and Kerry,
ABC,
Stiv Bators,
Brick,
Model 500,
Letta Mbulu,
Lalann,
Electric Prunes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Wings,
The Fuzztones,
Tommy Roe,
Joy Division,
Lucky Dragons,
Gang of Four,
The Happenings,
Wasted Youth,
In Retrospect,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Howard Jones,
Danielle Patucci,
The Cure,
Grey Daturas,
Yellowson,
Dark Day,
The Standells,
Lou Christie,
Mandrill,
The Litter,
The Cramps,
Monolake,
Von Mondo,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.