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 Bolivia and from Columbus.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar 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 Harpers Bizarre to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nils Olav,
Basic Channel,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Todd Terry,
John Lydon,
Von Mondo,
Funky Four + One,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bluetip,
Thompson Twins,
Flamin' Groovies,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cal Tjader,
Yazoo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Amazonics,
Loose Ends,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Alphaville,
Yellowson,
Eden Ahbez,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Arab on Radar,
The Sound,
Boredoms,
Audionom,
Pole,
FM Einheit,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Heaven 17,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Morten Harket,
Eric Dolphy,
Nico,
The Slits,
Visage,
Alice Coltrane,
Bad Manners,
The Evens,
Yusef Lateef,
Tim Buckley,
Pantaleimon,
David McCallum,
Faust,
Desert Stars,
Roger Hodgson,
Lungfish,
Altered Images,
China Crisis,
Ossler,
Guru Guru,
E-Dancer,
Deepchord,
Underground Resistance,
Smog,
Fluxion,
the Sonics,
Second Layer,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.