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 Montenegro and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the techno 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Prince Buster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Aloha Tigers,
Silicon Teens,
Mission of Burma,
Depeche Mode,
Quadrant,
Isaac Hayes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Robert Görl,
John Foxx,
Whodini,
Circle Jerks,
Lindisfarne,
Grey Daturas,
Rites of Spring,
Ronnie Foster,
Lungfish,
The Gun Club,
Kurtis Blow,
UT,
Glambeats Corp.,
Amazonics,
Gang Starr,
June Days,
The Music Machine,
the Bar-Kays,
Patti Smith,
The Grass Roots,
Rufus Thomas,
Roxette,
The Stooges,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ronan,
Infiniti,
Eli Mardock,
Clear Light,
Absolute Body Control,
Neil Young,
Junior Murvin,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
a-ha,
Joensuu 1685,
Half Japanese,
DJ Sneak,
Massinfluence,
Max Romeo,
Glenn Branca,
Man Eating Sloth,
Au Pairs,
Boredoms,
The Standells,
Average White Band,
Reuben Wilson,
T. Rex,
Symarip,
Sound Behaviour,
Pantytec,
Boz Scaggs,
Soft Machine,
Little Man,
Sexual Harrassment,
Minny Pops,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.