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 Botswana and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Blossom Toes to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
The Sonics,
The Wake,
Wire,
Jesper Dahlback,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rapeman,
Grey Daturas,
Q and Not U,
Bob Dylan,
Zero Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Roy Ayers,
DJ Style,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Royal Trux,
Subhumans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Gun Club,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neil Young,
The Grass Roots,
the Swans,
A Certain Ratio,
Thompson Twins,
Eve St. Jones,
Byron Stingily,
Jacob Miller,
Prince Buster,
The Zeros,
The Vogues,
Ultravox,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Harry Pussy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Spandau Ballet,
Cluster,
Joy Division,
Dennis Brown,
Gang of Four,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marvin Gaye,
Gil Scott Heron,
Morten Harket,
Sun Ra,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Reagan Youth,
The Litter,
The Evens,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lindisfarne,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
L. Decosne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Davy DMX,
Rites of Spring,
David McCallum,
Echospace,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.