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 Greece and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Fela Kuti to the crunk 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Patti Smith,
The Golliwogs,
Q and Not U,
The United States of America,
World's Most,
Terry Callier,
Janne Schatter,
Excepter,
The Index,
Outsiders,
Jeff Lynne,
Lakeside,
Charles Mingus,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Velvet Underground,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Animal Collective,
John Cale,
Hasil Adkins,
Essential Logic,
Y Pants,
Underground Resistance,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Babytalk,
Tomorrow,
Flamin' Groovies,
Thompson Twins,
Mandrill,
John Lydon,
The Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soft Machine,
Sound Behaviour,
Minor Threat,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Kinks,
Joe Finger,
Bill Near,
Morten Harket,
Oneida,
Skaos,
Sonic Youth,
The Shadows of Knight,
CMW,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brothers Johnson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Maurizio,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Procol Harum,
Hardrive,
Nation of Ulysses,
Juan Atkins,
Drexciya,
La Düsseldorf,
Gregory Isaacs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Qualms,
Mars,
Bobby Womack,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.