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 Korea South and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Holger Czukay 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 Zero Boys to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 T. Rex. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
The American Breed,
New York Dolls,
UT,
Essential Logic,
These Immortal Souls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
MDC,
The Gap Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Glambeats Corp.,
Erykah Badu,
Sun City Girls,
Radiopuhelimet,
David Axelrod,
One Last Wish,
Pantytec,
The Leaves,
Easy Going,
Amon Düül II,
U.S. Maple,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Zeros,
Nas,
Mo-Dettes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sonic Youth,
Youth Brigade,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dark Day,
Fatback Band,
The Evens,
June of 44,
Absolute Body Control,
Second Layer,
Public Enemy,
Supertramp,
Whodini,
Bluetip,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The United States of America,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Yaz,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ice-T,
The New Christs,
Barbara Tucker,
The Doors,
The Slits,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pere Ubu,
Tom Boy,
the Soft Cell,
Audionom,
Joey Negro,
Anthony Braxton,
Loose Ends,
Basic Channel,
D'Angelo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.