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 Iceland and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Schoolly D to the funk 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a mellotron 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 arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Outsiders,
Second Layer,
Radiopuhelimet,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Audionom,
Thompson Twins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pierre Henry,
Make Up,
Bush Tetras,
Metal Thangz,
Main Source,
Junior Murvin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
MDC,
Suburban Knight,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cybotron,
Minor Threat,
Hardrive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cal Tjader,
Black Bananas,
Anthony Braxton,
Pharoah Sanders,
Johnny Clarke,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Happenings,
Nirvana,
Accadde A,
The Shadows of Knight,
Amazonics,
Oneida,
John Lydon,
Mark Hollis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nick Fraelich,
Underground Resistance,
The Sound,
Moss Icon,
Max Romeo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ossler,
Easy Going,
Harry Pussy,
Subhumans,
This Heat,
Jawbox,
Kerrie Biddell,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sonic Youth,
Jandek,
Cameo,
the Association,
E-Dancer,
Stiv Bators,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.