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 Guinea and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 harpsichord 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 Minnie Riperton to the electroclash 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Mandrill,
Tim Buckley,
Tom Boy,
Rufus Thomas,
the Normal,
Mars,
Piero Umiliani,
10cc,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Silicon Teens,
Half Japanese,
Gong,
John Cale,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Al Stewart,
The Motions,
Aloha Tigers,
Nik Kershaw,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kurtis Blow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Maleditus Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
Das Ding,
David McCallum,
The Standells,
Amon Düül II,
Livin' Joy,
Dennis Brown,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
In Retrospect,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ronan,
Fad Gadget,
The New Christs,
The Evens,
Scan 7,
Jerry's Kids,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marine Girls,
LL Cool J,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Fugs,
Rotary Connection,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Litter,
Laurel Aitken,
Archie Shepp,
Gerry Rafferty,
Subhumans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Smog,
The Walker Brothers,
Shoche,
The Moleskins,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sonic Youth,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.