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 Seychelles and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 oboe 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 Skaos 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All The Sisters of Mercy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy Collins,
Section 25,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Brick,
Alison Limerick,
Ralphi Rosario,
Mr. Review,
Aswad,
Infiniti,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Amon Düül,
This Heat,
the Sonics,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Siglo XX,
Lakeside,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Grass Roots,
Guru Guru,
Aaron Thompson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Unwound,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pere Ubu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Roy Ayers,
X-101,
Dark Day,
AZ,
Anakelly,
Livin' Joy,
Duran Duran,
Wings,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rufus Thomas,
Monolake,
10cc,
Con Funk Shun,
Vainqueur,
Visage,
Cal Tjader,
The Tremeloes,
Bobby Byrd,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Faraquet,
Soulsonic Force,
Chris & Cosey,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
cv313,
The Toasters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Colin Newman,
Mary Jane Girls,
Janne Schatter,
Deadbeat,
Roxy Music,
Banda Bassotti,
Isaac Hayes,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.