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 Latvia and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and London.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the guitar 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Minutemen,
The Black Dice,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ultra Naté,
Pierre Henry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Warren Ellis,
Franke,
Country Teasers,
Scion,
Newcleus,
The Walker Brothers,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Gun Club,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T.S.O.L.,
Average White Band,
Charles Mingus,
Gong,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mantronix,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Maleditus Sound,
Grey Daturas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Buzzcocks,
Scientists,
Soft Cell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nico,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ludus,
Jawbox,
Letta Mbulu,
Lindisfarne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ice-T,
Ronnie Foster,
Massinfluence,
Jacob Miller,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Dead C,
Whodini,
Sexual Harrassment,
Model 500,
The Dirtbombs,
Aswad,
James White and The Blacks,
Joyce Sims,
48th St. Collective,
Neil Young,
The Residents,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Zeros,
Fluxion,
Livin' Joy,
The Gap Band,
Pole,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.