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 Nigeria and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 linndrum 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 MC5 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish 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 techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Agent Orange,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bronski Beat,
Accadde A,
Sexual Harrassment,
Little Man,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Ultimate Spinach,
Joensuu 1685,
Electric Prunes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sonny Sharrock,
Siglo XX,
Sound Behaviour,
Shoche,
The Cure,
Unwound,
Babytalk,
The Litter,
Jeru the Damaja,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Fugs,
Pere Ubu,
Adolescents,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Althea and Donna,
The Kinks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kerri Chandler,
Throbbing Gristle,
Eric Copeland,
Bauhaus,
Judy Mowatt,
Joe Finger,
Marmalade,
Oblivians,
Joy Division,
Echospace,
Drexciya,
The Flesh Eaters,
Dorothy Ashby,
Morten Harket,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lakeside,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Crime,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Peter and Kerry,
Slave,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dead Boys,
Bluetip,
Kurtis Blow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gerry Rafferty,
Vainqueur,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.