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 Italy and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Technova to the techno 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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 Mojo Men,
Minnie Riperton,
Radiopuhelimet,
Minor Threat,
AZ,
Brick,
ABBA,
Fear,
Nick Fraelich,
The Associates,
Circle Jerks,
Lightning Bolt,
Deepchord,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Monochrome Set,
E-Dancer,
Nirvana,
June of 44,
Quantec,
Amon Düül,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
John Lydon,
Chrome,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Goldenarms,
Accadde A,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Cramps,
Sam Rivers,
Desert Stars,
Rapeman,
Alison Limerick,
The Smoke,
Bizarre Inc.,
DNA,
Rotary Connection,
Janne Schatter,
the Association,
The Leaves,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joy Division,
The United States of America,
Simply Red,
Stiv Bators,
The Velvet Underground,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Susan Cadogan,
Smog,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Soul II Soul,
The Residents,
Swans,
The Toasters,
Royal Trux,
Michelle Simonal,
Babytalk,
Make Up,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.