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 Tonga and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and London.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics 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 Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Stiv Bators,
Model 500,
Traffic Nightmare,
Eric Dolphy,
The United States of America,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Banda Bassotti,
U.S. Maple,
Dennis Brown,
Absolute Body Control,
Gong,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Symarip,
The Seeds,
Shoche,
The Tremeloes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Newcleus,
Unwound,
Audionom,
Brick,
Mad Mike,
Marmalade,
Black Pus,
Nirvana,
Heaven 17,
Visage,
The Evens,
Black Flag,
Roxy Music,
Kerri Chandler,
Man Eating Sloth,
Graham Central Station,
Patti Smith,
Monolake,
Alice Coltrane,
Stereo Dub,
Jacob Miller,
The Grass Roots,
Unrelated Segments,
These Immortal Souls,
Amon Düül II,
Rod Modell,
Buzzcocks,
Jerry's Kids,
Derrick Morgan,
Wally Richardson,
Matthew Bourne,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Yellowson,
Ronnie Foster,
Jesper Dahlback,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pole,
Arcadia,
Gabor Szabo,
Fear,
The Pretty Things,
Magazine,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.