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 Gabon and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 snare 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 Raincoats to the techno 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wings,
Iggy Pop,
E-Dancer,
Lakeside,
Visage,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Holt,
Von Mondo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Index,
MDC,
Funkadelic,
Gang Gang Dance,
Moebius,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Womack,
Public Image Ltd.,
The J.B.'s,
David McCallum,
Barclay James Harvest,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Young Rascals,
D'Angelo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joensuu 1685,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Peter and Kerry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Radio Birdman,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Derrick May,
The Smoke,
Crime,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Reuben Wilson,
Johnny Clarke,
Kool Moe Dee,
Throbbing Gristle,
Aural Exciters,
Minny Pops,
Lalann,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Malaria!,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pantytec,
June Days,
The Grass Roots,
Skriet,
Scion,
Kenny Larkin,
Fad Gadget,
The Sonics,
Ralphi Rosario,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Arab on Radar,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.