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 Bahrain and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 Zero Boys to the rap 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
The Sound,
Visage,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Q and Not U,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
Skaos,
Ossler,
Ludus,
Little Man,
Lebanon Hanover,
Niagra,
The Golliwogs,
China Crisis,
The Motions,
Monolake,
Q65,
Throbbing Gristle,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Reuben Wilson,
Panda Bear,
John Foxx,
The Doors,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Sheep,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rapeman,
Lou Reed,
Mission of Burma,
Ronnie Foster,
Wolf Eyes,
Lakeside,
Aaron Thompson,
World's Most,
Rufus Thomas,
Hardrive,
Lee Hazlewood,
Outsiders,
The Durutti Column,
New Age Steppers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Harry Pussy,
Don Cherry,
Letta Mbulu,
Procol Harum,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Yazoo,
Crash Course in Science,
Roger Hodgson,
Alison Limerick,
Soft Machine,
Cymande,
Colin Newman,
The Dirtbombs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Quadrant,
Joensuu 1685,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cal Tjader,
The Tremeloes,
Suburban Knight,
Glenn Branca,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.