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 Iceland and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Moss Icon to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Monks. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Henry Cow,
Delta 5,
Darondo,
48th St. Collective,
Bauhaus,
Spoonie Gee,
Fat Boys,
Rod Modell,
Beasts of Bourbon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wally Richardson,
The Seeds,
Soulsonic Force,
Brick,
X-102,
Scott Walker,
Kas Product,
The Remains,
Todd Rundgren,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stereo Dub,
Organ,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lou Reed,
Amon Düül,
Grauzone,
Skaos,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Unrelated Segments,
The Martian,
Main Source,
Unwound,
Maurizio,
Loose Ends,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Young Rascals,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pantytec,
The Residents,
Maleditus Sound,
The Smoke,
Iggy Pop,
Black Moon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Chris & Cosey,
10cc,
Index,
The Pretty Things,
Freddie Wadling,
The Birthday Party,
Gong,
Mandrill,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Human League,
Gang Starr,
Robert Wyatt,
Rites of Spring,
Joe Smooth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Letta Mbulu,
Khruangbin,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.