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 Saudi Arabia and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron 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 World's Most to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
Skarface,
The Pop Group,
Pussy Galore,
the Swans,
Make Up,
The Music Machine,
Girls At Our Best!,
La Düsseldorf,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Barrington Levy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Crime,
EPMD,
Anakelly,
Duran Duran,
Swell Maps,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ossler,
Sandy B,
Traffic Nightmare,
Altered Images,
Flash Fearless,
Stereo Dub,
Shoche,
June of 44,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pet Shop Boys,
Babytalk,
Rhythm & Sound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Mummies,
Lee Hazlewood,
World's Most,
The Doors,
Judy Mowatt,
Roger Hodgson,
Can,
Massinfluence,
K-Klass,
Minnie Riperton,
Pagans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rapeman,
Monks,
Lakeside,
Michelle Simonal,
Dawn Penn,
Yaz,
The Fortunes,
Wings,
Kayak,
Roxy Music,
Mo-Dettes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sarah Menescal,
the Association,
Delta 5,
Rites of Spring,
Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow.
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.