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 Lithuania and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Happenings to the rap 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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
June Days,
Deadbeat,
T. Rex,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Khruangbin,
Warsaw,
Minny Pops,
These Immortal Souls,
MC5,
The Moleskins,
Wings,
La Düsseldorf,
Lungfish,
Eddi Front,
Altered Images,
DJ Style,
Boogie Down Productions,
Robert Görl,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rod Modell,
Animal Collective,
John Holt,
Boz Scaggs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fear,
Funky Four + One,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Glambeats Corp.,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Groovy Waters,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Electric Prunes,
Trumans Water,
Wally Richardson,
The Gun Club,
The Sonics,
Loose Ends,
Visage,
Mantronix,
Jawbox,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Chris & Cosey,
The Flesh Eaters,
Duran Duran,
In Retrospect,
Smog,
Hashim,
Flash Fearless,
Minnie Riperton,
The Happenings,
The Cure,
Roger Hodgson,
Accadde A,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
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.