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 Guatemala and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 Metal Thangz to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Guru Guru,
Minnie Riperton,
Joyce Sims,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Matthew Bourne,
Boz Scaggs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Young Marble Giants,
Accadde A,
Metal Thangz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gap Band,
E-Dancer,
Negative Approach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Toni Rubio,
Bootsy Collins,
Albert Ayler,
Robert Görl,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry's Kids,
The Monochrome Set,
L. Decosne,
Tim Buckley,
Sister Nancy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rakim,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
China Crisis,
the Bar-Kays,
Ponytail,
Technova,
Unrelated Segments,
Dual Sessions,
The Pop Group,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Graham Central Station,
Arthur Verocai,
Andrew Hill,
Qualms,
Goldenarms,
K-Klass,
Crash Course in Science,
Unwound,
Mark Hollis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Cramps,
Aural Exciters,
Deakin,
Lee Hazlewood,
Y Pants,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Remains,
The Star Department,
Slave,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Johnny Osbourne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.