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 Portugal and from Seoul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Aswad to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ 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 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?
Rites of Spring,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Bar-Kays,
F. McDonald,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The J.B.'s,
China Crisis,
The Invisible,
Pussy Galore,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Index,
Erasure,
H. Thieme,
Alton Ellis,
Gang Starr,
Judy Mowatt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Youth Brigade,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Zeros,
Lucky Dragons,
Grauzone,
Bootsy Collins,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rotary Connection,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Graham Central Station,
Nas,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kerrie Biddell,
Malaria!,
The Gories,
Adolescents,
Simply Red,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Crime,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ronan,
OOIOO,
The Dirtbombs,
The Associates,
Pantytec,
Yellowson,
DNA,
The Alarm Clocks,
Crash Course in Science,
Alphaville,
Gong,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
cv313,
8 Eyed Spy,
Popol Vuh,
Carl Craig,
Ossler,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Raincoats,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bizarre Inc.,
Piero Umiliani,
Average White Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.