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 Bahrain and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Skriet to the grime 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
MDC,
Fad Gadget,
June of 44,
The Skatalites,
Essential Logic,
The Residents,
Joe Finger,
Wasted Youth,
The Searchers,
Visage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neu!,
Nas,
Lalann,
Kool Moe Dee,
Swell Maps,
The Golliwogs,
Howard Jones,
Marc Almond,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Tomorrow,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
John Foxx,
Tubeway Army,
Sixth Finger,
Crime,
Silicon Teens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minny Pops,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dave Gahan,
Sarah Menescal,
Isaac Hayes,
Glenn Branca,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Cure,
Suicide,
Althea and Donna,
Slick Rick,
Can,
Iggy Pop,
The Slackers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Velvet Underground,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Beau Brummels,
UT,
Nirvana,
Erasure,
DJ Style,
Jacques Brel,
Fat Boys,
Joensuu 1685,
Dennis Brown,
Spandau Ballet,
Sexual Harrassment,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Marine Girls,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.