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 Syria and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 guitar 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 Nation of Ulysses to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Marine Girls,
Livin' Joy,
L. Decosne,
Josef K,
The Mummies,
Altered Images,
Guru Guru,
Symarip,
Magma,
T.S.O.L.,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Intrusion,
Juan Atkins,
One Last Wish,
Gang Starr,
the Fania All-Stars,
Television Personalities,
Harmonia,
Isaac Hayes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
B.T. Express,
Moebius,
Peter & Gordon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Soft Cell,
Nico,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hoover,
Skriet,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Shuggie Otis,
Soul II Soul,
Howard Jones,
Grauzone,
Infiniti,
Stereo Dub,
Crime,
the Sonics,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Make Up,
The Real Kids,
Eve St. Jones,
Minny Pops,
The Smiths,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
David McCallum,
The United States of America,
MDC,
Urselle,
Gang Green,
Joey Negro,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Normal,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Q65,
Liliput,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.