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 Ethiopia 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the electroclash 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
Spoonie Gee,
Patti Smith,
Excepter,
Jesper Dahlback,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Erasure,
Cameo,
Yaz,
Visage,
Drexciya,
Prince Buster,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Television,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Barclay James Harvest,
Susan Cadogan,
Danielle Patucci,
The Busters,
Duran Duran,
Pantytec,
Silicon Teens,
Bill Near,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Reuben Wilson,
Aural Exciters,
Flash Fearless,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Fall,
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Bobbi Humphrey,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Josef K,
Nico,
Kenny Larkin,
Yusef Lateef,
Crooked Eye,
Zapp,
Circle Jerks,
Fear,
Morten Harket,
Black Moon,
Colin Newman,
Terry Callier,
ABC,
The Saints,
Curtis Mayfield,
Matthew Halsall,
Cluster,
Mad Mike,
Franke,
Brothers Johnson,
Letta Mbulu,
The Residents,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lungfish,
Fatback Band,
The Gories,
Robert Hood,
Theoretical Girls,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.