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 Estonia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Smoke to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
David Bowie,
Royal Trux,
JFA,
The Dirtbombs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roy Ayers,
Kayak,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Panda Bear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Womack,
Gichy Dan,
a-ha,
Iggy Pop,
Hardrive,
Tears for Fears,
The Buckinghams,
the Slits,
Soulsonic Force,
The Index,
Loose Ends,
K-Klass,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Kinks,
DJ Sneak,
Joe Smooth,
Donny Hathaway,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Halsall,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Amon Düül II,
Heaven 17,
Parry Music,
Archie Shepp,
Oblivians,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ponytail,
L. Decosne,
The Associates,
Q65,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
This Heat,
Camouflage,
Liliput,
Donald Byrd,
Mantronix,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Faust,
Organ,
The Star Department,
The Saints,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Skatalites,
Intrusion,
The Count Five,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.