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 Seychelles and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 Edmonton and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Y Pants to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Crash Course in Science,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kas Product,
KRS-One,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mark Hollis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kerrie Biddell,
Wings,
Q65,
Monks,
Barrington Levy,
Japan,
Reagan Youth,
Lindisfarne,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Aswad,
Erykah Badu,
The Standells,
Minny Pops,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sex Pistols,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rekid,
Symarip,
Tears for Fears,
Newcleus,
Liliput,
The Associates,
Pantaleimon,
Gang Starr,
The Move,
Minor Threat,
Nik Kershaw,
Barbara Tucker,
Drive Like Jehu,
Dennis Brown,
Anakelly,
The Flesh Eaters,
DJ Style,
Hot Snakes,
Mandrill,
Todd Terry,
Sam Rivers,
Agent Orange,
Rhythm & Sound,
A Certain Ratio,
Quantec,
Ronan,
Cal Tjader,
Gregory Isaacs,
Skriet,
Dual Sessions,
Stereo Dub,
The Trojans,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Flag,
ABC,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.