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 Ireland and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin 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 Drexciya to the crunk 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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heaven 17,
Second Layer,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New Order,
Bluetip,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ten City,
Marvin Gaye,
Groovy Waters,
Absolute Body Control,
The Durutti Column,
The Five Americans,
Joyce Sims,
Rosa Yemen,
Guru Guru,
The Moody Blues,
Saccharine Trust,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Isaac Hayes,
Shoche,
Black Moon,
Rotary Connection,
CMW,
Basic Channel,
Rakim,
Scratch Acid,
The Skatalites,
Oneida,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
UT,
The Shadows of Knight,
FM Einheit,
Pussy Galore,
Youth Brigade,
Hardrive,
Sam Rivers,
Radio Birdman,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fortunes,
Moebius,
The Knickerbockers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joey Negro,
Metal Thangz,
Hashim,
Jesper Dahlback,
Model 500,
Soulsonic Force,
Altered Images,
Nick Fraelich,
Peter and Kerry,
Skarface,
The Music Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Association,
Harmonia,
Qualms,
The Stooges,
A Flock of Seagulls,
David Axelrod,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.