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 Bangladesh and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Fluxion to the funk 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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Babytalk,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marmalade,
Gerry Rafferty,
Janne Schatter,
Black Flag,
Swans,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Prince Buster,
Scratch Acid,
Aloha Tigers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Matthew Halsall,
Albert Ayler,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eric Copeland,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Todd Rundgren,
The Red Krayola,
Erykah Badu,
Stiv Bators,
Dennis Brown,
John Cale,
Barrington Levy,
Parry Music,
Black Pus,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Skaos,
Qualms,
The Motions,
Second Layer,
Derrick May,
The Offenders,
H. Thieme,
Minny Pops,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sarah Menescal,
Amazonics,
Mantronix,
Metal Thangz,
The Happenings,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Enemy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Suburban Knight,
Smog,
Ultimate Spinach,
Silicon Teens,
Malaria!,
The Techniques,
10cc,
The Divine Comedy,
Donald Byrd,
Graham Central Station,
Popol Vuh,
Lou Reed,
Theoretical Girls,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.