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 Sri Lanka and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Calgary.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Matthew Halsall to the punk 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Vladislav Delay,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cluster,
Negative Approach,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Masters at Work,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Yusef Lateef,
JFA,
Essential Logic,
Isaac Hayes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rufus Thomas,
Quando Quango,
The Birthday Party,
EPMD,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Beau Brummels,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bobby Byrd,
The Dirtbombs,
One Last Wish,
Kerri Chandler,
The Seeds,
John Foxx,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Royal Trux,
Avey Tare,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sugar Minott,
Chris Corsano,
Drexciya,
X-102,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Minor Threat,
the Slits,
Accadde A,
Girls At Our Best!,
Crime,
Nik Kershaw,
Terry Callier,
Soulsonic Force,
Bootsy Collins,
Supertramp,
Amon Düül,
Boredoms,
Big Daddy Kane,
Agitation Free,
Scion,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fugs,
Liliput,
Wings,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.