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 Somalia 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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Yaz to the punk 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Mad Mike,
Infiniti,
Thompson Twins,
Jacques Brel,
Robert Hood,
Wally Richardson,
Hoover,
Suburban Knight,
Aural Exciters,
Porter Ricks,
Ralphi Rosario,
Alison Limerick,
Sixth Finger,
Bang On A Can,
The United States of America,
kango's stein massive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DNA,
Rod Modell,
Aswad,
Panda Bear,
Cluster,
Aloha Tigers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mission of Burma,
Groovy Waters,
Supertramp,
Pagans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Motorama,
Rufus Thomas,
Sarah Menescal,
The Standells,
Derrick May,
Siglo XX,
Laurel Aitken,
Simply Red,
Japan,
Deadbeat,
Bootsy Collins,
Urselle,
OOIOO,
A Certain Ratio,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Section 25,
Interpol,
Henry Cow,
Lightning Bolt,
Bob Dylan,
Audionom,
The Gap Band,
Scientists,
The Gladiators,
Tubeway Army,
Zero Boys,
The Gories,
Public Enemy,
LL Cool J,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Davy DMX,
Barrington Levy,
The New Christs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.