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 South Africa and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rapeman to the rap 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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Scion,
Pantytec,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Danielle Patucci,
Half Japanese,
Dave Gahan,
Bush Tetras,
Unrelated Segments,
Simply Red,
Isaac Hayes,
Piero Umiliani,
Harmonia,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sugar Minott,
Zero Boys,
Icehouse,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lower 48,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gichy Dan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Victims,
Thee Headcoats,
Excepter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang of Four,
Iggy Pop,
Yellowson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Quando Quango,
The American Breed,
Mantronix,
The Fortunes,
Scientists,
The Buckinghams,
Soul Sonic Force,
EPMD,
Reagan Youth,
The Zeros,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Banda Bassotti,
R.M.O.,
Model 500,
Scan 7,
Black Pus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Panda Bear,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Gladiators,
Dark Day,
Royal Trux,
Monolake,
The Doobie Brothers,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Flag,
Bobby Byrd,
New York Dolls,
Khruangbin,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.