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 Croatia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb 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 Can to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lightning Bolt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Connie Case,
Underground Resistance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Bananas,
Mo-Dettes,
Sun City Girls,
John Holt,
Shoche,
Echospace,
Scrapy,
Talk Talk,
Rekid,
Circle Jerks,
Inner City,
Soul II Soul,
The Happenings,
The Standells,
Quando Quango,
Sister Nancy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobby Sherman,
Fatback Band,
Nils Olav,
Chrome,
Con Funk Shun,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Depeche Mode,
The Divine Comedy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lalo Schifrin,
Max Romeo,
T.S.O.L.,
Bad Manners,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Amon Düül,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Duran Duran,
D'Angelo,
The Beau Brummels,
Quadrant,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Cramps,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rakim,
Quantec,
Maurizio,
The Invisible,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jandek,
The Doors,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bill Wells,
Black Moon,
Newcleus,
Albert Ayler,
H. Thieme,
Niagra,
Wally Richardson,
Marvin Gaye,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.