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 Guatemala and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Hoover to the jazz 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Lakeside,
Alison Limerick,
OOIOO,
Lungfish,
Motorama,
Television Personalities,
Gil Scott Heron,
Junior Murvin,
Radiohead,
the Germs,
Cybotron,
Ornette Coleman,
Danielle Patucci,
Marine Girls,
Barry Ungar,
Camouflage,
Grandmaster Flash,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Zero Boys,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sister Nancy,
Moby Grape,
Warsaw,
Massinfluence,
The American Breed,
the Fania All-Stars,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Angels of Light,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Lydon,
Derrick Morgan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cheater Slicks,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Association,
Max Romeo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Inner City,
Tubeway Army,
Darondo,
Faust,
Essential Logic,
Godley & Creme,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Gladiators,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grauzone,
The Stooges,
Theoretical Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Porter Ricks,
DJ Sneak,
Anthony Braxton,
Hot Snakes,
the Slits,
The Raincoats,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Khruangbin,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Guru Guru,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.