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 Andorra and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 ABBA to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cramps,
Peter and Kerry,
The Fire Engines,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Albert Ayler,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Raincoats,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fela Kuti,
D'Angelo,
Joe Finger,
PIL,
Dave Gahan,
cv313,
Michelle Simonal,
The Dave Clark Five,
Josef K,
Tubeway Army,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bush Tetras,
Matthew Halsall,
Alton Ellis,
Funkadelic,
Young Marble Giants,
Pharoah Sanders,
Arcadia,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skaos,
John Coltrane,
Dark Day,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Gun Club,
Oblivians,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Slits,
Quadrant,
Wire,
Roxy Music,
The Fall,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yellowson,
KRS-One,
The Music Machine,
Anakelly,
The Last Poets,
The Blues Magoos,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
F. McDonald,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Sheep,
The Litter,
The Dead C,
Lalo Schifrin,
Crispian St. Peters,
UT,
Johnny Osbourne,
Con Funk Shun,
Swans,
The Toasters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.