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 Qatar and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Average White Band to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Oblivians,
Tres Demented,
Supertramp,
Guru Guru,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Techniques,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
New Age Steppers,
Mars,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Thompson Twins,
Eurythmics,
Schoolly D,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Buckinghams,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Golliwogs,
Rakim,
Letta Mbulu,
Bootsy Collins,
Talk Talk,
Procol Harum,
Metal Thangz,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fugs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Warren Ellis,
Clear Light,
Tubeway Army,
Arthur Verocai,
Godley & Creme,
Swans,
FM Einheit,
D'Angelo,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Blues Magoos,
Pulsallama,
Flipper,
The Happenings,
Pagans,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Glenn Branca,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ten City,
Agitation Free,
The Birthday Party,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Soft Cell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Stooges,
Slave,
Barrington Levy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bauhaus,
Rites of Spring,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.