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 Seychelles and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Fania All-Stars to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Piero Umiliani,
Soulsonic Force,
Sarah Menescal,
Section 25,
Gang Green,
MDC,
Fatback Band,
Dead Boys,
The Moleskins,
Faraquet,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Beau Brummels,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
June of 44,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rosa Yemen,
The Shadows of Knight,
Traffic Nightmare,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Selecter,
Sparks,
Ronnie Foster,
Nico,
Black Bananas,
The Remains,
Anakelly,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gong,
The Blues Magoos,
Tim Buckley,
Chris Corsano,
Electric Prunes,
Smog,
Loose Ends,
Infiniti,
Thompson Twins,
Jerry's Kids,
The Move,
Rhythm & Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
PIL,
F. McDonald,
the Sonics,
Morten Harket,
The Electric Prunes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Chrome,
kango's stein massive,
Minor Threat,
Bobby Sherman,
JFA,
Dark Day,
Mo-Dettes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mission of Burma,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
K-Klass,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Second Layer,
the Association,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.