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 Mexico and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Royal Trux. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo 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?
Can,
Flash Fearless,
Donny Hathaway,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Busters,
Urselle,
Groovy Waters,
A Certain Ratio,
Absolute Body Control,
Sight & Sound,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mars,
Shoche,
Barrington Levy,
Basic Channel,
Lebanon Hanover,
X-102,
Mission of Burma,
The Evens,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rakim,
X-101,
Second Layer,
Desert Stars,
Organ,
New Age Steppers,
One Last Wish,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Popol Vuh,
David Axelrod,
Matthew Halsall,
Leonard Cohen,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tubeway Army,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Slave,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
World's Most,
Kenny Larkin,
Dawn Penn,
the Swans,
Jawbox,
Moss Icon,
Henry Cow,
Morten Harket,
Judy Mowatt,
JFA,
Alton Ellis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Searchers,
Visage,
Yusef Lateef,
Von Mondo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Monks,
Niagra,
Swell Maps,
The Music Machine,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Blackbyrds,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.