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 Congo and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 harpsichord 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the rap 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 The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 8 Eyed Spy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jacob Miller,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Theoretical Girls,
the Fania All-Stars,
Max Romeo,
The American Breed,
Animal Collective,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sound Behaviour,
X-102,
Moss Icon,
Zero Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
Jerry's Kids,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Evens,
Joyce Sims,
The Vogues,
X-Ray Spex,
Moby Grape,
Nirvana,
Rosa Yemen,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Darondo,
Massinfluence,
kango's stein massive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dennis Brown,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eve St. Jones,
Khruangbin,
Black Bananas,
Juan Atkins,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Infiniti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Skriet,
The Sound,
Kerri Chandler,
Royal Trux,
Silicon Teens,
Sandy B,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television Personalities,
Roxy Music,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Babytalk,
Sonic Youth,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eric Dolphy,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.