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 Guatemala and from London.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Q and Not U to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Barracudas,
Laurel Aitken,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Pretty Things,
Joy Division,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nick Fraelich,
Soul II Soul,
Sight & Sound,
Amon Düül,
Simply Red,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Schoolly D,
The Fire Engines,
Jeff Lynne,
The Moody Blues,
Zero Boys,
The Monochrome Set,
Nas,
Oneida,
H. Thieme,
Yazoo,
Funkadelic,
Mo-Dettes,
Gerry Rafferty,
Stereo Dub,
Sällskapet,
Cheater Slicks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Television Personalities,
Gong,
Andrew Hill,
Johnny Clarke,
The Wake,
Gang Green,
Lalo Schifrin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Walker Brothers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Names,
Alton Ellis,
MC5,
Gang Gang Dance,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pantaleimon,
Vladislav Delay,
Negative Approach,
Tres Demented,
Echospace,
Deepchord,
Kool Moe Dee,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sarah Menescal,
Robert Wyatt,
Delta 5,
Warsaw,
Japan,
The Grass Roots,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.