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 Ukraine 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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 clarinet 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 Faraquet to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ken Boothe,
The Pop Group,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Count Five,
Boredoms,
Little Man,
China Crisis,
Accadde A,
Newcleus,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wolf Eyes,
Mr. Review,
The Durutti Column,
Pharoah Sanders,
KRS-One,
Lou Christie,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Goldenarms,
Sixth Finger,
The Sonics,
The Last Poets,
Subhumans,
Supertramp,
Morten Harket,
Arthur Verocai,
Essential Logic,
The New Christs,
H. Thieme,
The J.B.'s,
Zero Boys,
June of 44,
The Shadows of Knight,
Don Cherry,
the Soft Cell,
Alice Coltrane,
The Monochrome Set,
Eve St. Jones,
Quadrant,
Hasil Adkins,
Young Marble Giants,
Soul II Soul,
Ronnie Foster,
A Certain Ratio,
Steve Hackett,
Bad Manners,
Graham Central Station,
Arcadia,
Laurel Aitken,
48th St. Collective,
the Sonics,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Warsaw,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pulsallama,
Qualms,
The Vogues,
Von Mondo,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bauhaus,
Wire,
Isaac Hayes,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.