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 Mali and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Carl Craig to the electroclash 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sex Pistols,
The Shadows of Knight,
Aswad,
Sound Behaviour,
Wolf Eyes,
Barry Ungar,
Wally Richardson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Detroit Cobras,
Loose Ends,
The Pop Group,
Glenn Branca,
Minutemen,
Alice Coltrane,
Sparks,
The Human League,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Brothers Johnson,
Eric B and Rakim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Blues Magoos,
Gregory Isaacs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Zeros,
Basic Channel,
Youth Brigade,
Animal Collective,
Pole,
The Flesh Eaters,
Maleditus Sound,
Marc Almond,
Rotary Connection,
Terrestrial Tones,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Altered Images,
Mr. Review,
The Dave Clark Five,
Unrelated Segments,
Erasure,
Aaron Thompson,
Tom Boy,
Amon Düül,
Lakeside,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalo Schifrin,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joey Negro,
Ralphi Rosario,
Maurizio,
Lucky Dragons,
Ronan,
Dark Day,
Magazine,
Bluetip,
Black Moon,
Parry Music,
Eden Ahbez,
Lou Christie,
Dorothy Ashby,
the Soft Cell,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.