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 Chile and from Milan.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Glasgow.
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 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 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 Negative Approach to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bush Tetras,
F. McDonald,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Piero Umiliani,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lindisfarne,
James Chance & The Contortions,
CMW,
MC5,
Thee Headcoats,
Moebius,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Star Department,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Erykah Badu,
Black Bananas,
JFA,
Sugar Minott,
Ituana,
Michelle Simonal,
The Real Kids,
New York Dolls,
the Normal,
Eli Mardock,
The Litter,
Scrapy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jandek,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Yusef Lateef,
Young Marble Giants,
Soulsonic Force,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Derrick May,
The Gap Band,
Country Teasers,
Hoover,
Junior Murvin,
Vainqueur,
Wire,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bauhaus,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gabor Szabo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Charles Mingus,
Sonic Youth,
Jacques Brel,
Amazonics,
Quando Quango,
Blake Baxter,
Ponytail,
The Zeros,
Maurizio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Silicon Teens,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.