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 Seychelles and from Seoul.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe 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 Radiohead to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
The Cure,
Jerry's Kids,
Stockholm Monsters,
Funky Four + One,
Dennis Brown,
Con Funk Shun,
The Neon Judgement,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
One Last Wish,
Maurizio,
Blossom Toes,
The Durutti Column,
Excepter,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Victims,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Arcadia,
Tomorrow,
Angry Samoans,
Prince Buster,
The Trojans,
Electric Prunes,
Janne Schatter,
The Remains,
Yusef Lateef,
Bob Dylan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aural Exciters,
Dave Gahan,
Radiohead,
Kayak,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brick,
ABC,
The Zeros,
World's Most,
Pet Shop Boys,
Laurel Aitken,
Henry Cow,
Aaron Thompson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Dead C,
the Bar-Kays,
Nas,
Lebanon Hanover,
MDC,
Parry Music,
Crime,
Freddie Wadling,
Symarip,
Mr. Review,
Grey Daturas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.