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 Japan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Wake to the grunge 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sparks,
Adolescents,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Davy DMX,
Nirvana,
Peter & Gordon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Warsaw,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Pop Group,
Isaac Hayes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Germs,
Funkadelic,
Tim Buckley,
Bluetip,
Stetsasonic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Section 25,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Tommy Roe,
Hoover,
China Crisis,
Harpers Bizarre,
Livin' Joy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cal Tjader,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mr. Review,
Symarip,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
John Holt,
Cameo,
Swell Maps,
Derrick Morgan,
The Evens,
the Association,
The American Breed,
Sonic Youth,
FM Einheit,
New Order,
The Smoke,
John Cale,
Bush Tetras,
Anthony Braxton,
Sixth Finger,
ABBA,
Eric Copeland,
Essential Logic,
Jacques Brel,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
New Age Steppers,
The Raincoats,
Public Enemy,
Judy Mowatt,
Drive Like Jehu,
Organ,
The Fortunes,
Alison Limerick,
Minny Pops,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.