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 Turkmenistan and from Jakarta.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 synthesizer 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 Bobby Womack to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All The Sisters of Mercy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gladiators,
Saccharine Trust,
Absolute Body Control,
10cc,
Jandek,
Lyres,
a-ha,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soul II Soul,
The Raincoats,
Peter and Kerry,
The J.B.'s,
Isaac Hayes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eurythmics,
Niagra,
Main Source,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Slits,
kango's stein massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Althea and Donna,
Minnie Riperton,
Rhythm & Sound,
Black Bananas,
Mad Mike,
John Coltrane,
The Mummies,
DJ Style,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Christie,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gong,
The Happenings,
Essential Logic,
the Germs,
Cybotron,
Marine Girls,
Sällskapet,
Excepter,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
LL Cool J,
Model 500,
The Skatalites,
Tears for Fears,
Minor Threat,
Bobby Byrd,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barclay James Harvest,
Icehouse,
Laurel Aitken,
F. McDonald,
Sparks,
Agent Orange,
Supertramp,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jeff Lynne,
Pussy Galore,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.