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 Norway and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 spring reverb 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
The Standells,
Donny Hathaway,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Buckinghams,
The Happenings,
The Trojans,
X-101,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bobby Womack,
Moss Icon,
Motorama,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Chris Corsano,
Dennis Brown,
Von Mondo,
Rakim,
The Residents,
Ten City,
Sixth Finger,
the Bar-Kays,
Hot Snakes,
The Busters,
Altered Images,
Model 500,
The Cramps,
The Electric Prunes,
Jeff Mills,
The Monks,
Ultravox,
Inner City,
The Blues Magoos,
Thompson Twins,
Ponytail,
Urselle,
Bluetip,
FM Einheit,
Scan 7,
Bauhaus,
Ohio Players,
Pole,
Ronan,
Panda Bear,
Absolute Body Control,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Wake,
Warren Ellis,
David Bowie,
Mo-Dettes,
E-Dancer,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fela Kuti,
Todd Terry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pulsallama,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pantytec,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Germs,
Funky Four + One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.