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 Uganda and from Cairo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 rhodes 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 Magma to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Basic Channel,
Alton Ellis,
The Velvet Underground,
PIL,
Derrick Morgan,
Chris & Cosey,
The Grass Roots,
Malaria!,
Dawn Penn,
Animal Collective,
Be Bop Deluxe,
L. Decosne,
Dennis Brown,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Trojans,
Masters at Work,
Isaac Hayes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fear,
Marshall Jefferson,
Anthony Braxton,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Normal,
Iggy Pop,
Grandmaster Flash,
Royal Trux,
Donny Hathaway,
Liliput,
Prince Buster,
Swans,
Marvin Gaye,
Funky Four + One,
Roxette,
Pussy Galore,
Niagra,
Michelle Simonal,
Newcleus,
the Sonics,
David Axelrod,
The J.B.'s,
Public Image Ltd.,
Intrusion,
Moby Grape,
Skaos,
Sister Nancy,
Cybotron,
Spoonie Gee,
One Last Wish,
The Selecter,
Television,
Boogie Down Productions,
Todd Terry,
Urselle,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quantec,
Thee Headcoats,
The Five Americans,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.