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 Guinea and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jerry's Kids to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Sarah Menescal,
Q and Not U,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jawbox,
The United States of America,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neil Young,
Tropical Tobacco,
Talk Talk,
Nas,
Bad Manners,
Qualms,
John Lydon,
Malaria!,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pere Ubu,
Charles Mingus,
Heaven 17,
Camouflage,
X-101,
the Germs,
Los Fastidios,
Kayak,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang Starr,
Jeru the Damaja,
Tears for Fears,
The Evens,
L. Decosne,
Sonic Youth,
Pulsallama,
Pylon,
Gastr Del Sol,
The J.B.'s,
Man Eating Sloth,
Swans,
Yazoo,
The Remains,
Underground Resistance,
Marmalade,
Alton Ellis,
Theoretical Girls,
Sixth Finger,
E-Dancer,
Marshall Jefferson,
Supertramp,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Royal Trux,
Camberwell Now,
The Detroit Cobras,
Grauzone,
OOIOO,
Guru Guru,
Josef K,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.