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 Egypt and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 clarinet 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 Niagra to the crunk 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Jacques Brel,
Minutemen,
a-ha,
Qualms,
Visage,
Surgeon,
Ten City,
Mad Mike,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dave Gahan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Vainqueur,
Lyres,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The American Breed,
Terrestrial Tones,
Siglo XX,
Khruangbin,
Sun Ra,
Grey Daturas,
Marc Almond,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
D'Angelo,
Barbara Tucker,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Germs,
Joy Division,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tom Boy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Alison Limerick,
Q and Not U,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kas Product,
Sällskapet,
Eden Ahbez,
Swell Maps,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
Scrapy,
Scan 7,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Litter,
The Human League,
Howard Jones,
The Moleskins,
Technova,
Shoche,
The Young Rascals,
Joensuu 1685,
The Barracudas,
Clear Light,
Second Layer,
Zapp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.