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 Jamaica and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Delhi.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Pantaleimon to the disco 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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
The Durutti Column,
Sugar Minott,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Deepchord,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Coltrane,
Marshall Jefferson,
Faraquet,
The Beau Brummels,
Erykah Badu,
The Last Poets,
Electric Prunes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Inner City,
Loose Ends,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Barclay James Harvest,
DJ Style,
Johnny Clarke,
Moss Icon,
Rotary Connection,
Cymande,
Scion,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mars,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Deadbeat,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quando Quango,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Sound,
Tomorrow,
Pagans,
X-101,
Mission of Burma,
The Gladiators,
Neu!,
Eyeless In Gaza,
UT,
Ice-T,
Organ,
The Seeds,
New York Dolls,
Stetsasonic,
Reagan Youth,
Monolake,
The Cramps,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bad Manners,
48th St. Collective,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delta 5,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Grass Roots,
Kayak,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Can,
Con Funk Shun,
The Offenders,
The Music Machine,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.