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 Sierra Leone and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 organ 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 Alison Limerick to the disco 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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monks,
Skarface,
Fatback Band,
cv313,
Marine Girls,
The Cure,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kaleidoscope,
Vainqueur,
Lightning Bolt,
Ossler,
Ten City,
Suburban Knight,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
48th St. Collective,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Prince Buster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Style,
Barry Ungar,
Robert Wyatt,
June Days,
Isaac Hayes,
Skaos,
The Victims,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lindisfarne,
The Smoke,
Groovy Waters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gong,
Fluxion,
Lou Reed,
Bauhaus,
Matthew Halsall,
10cc,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
Oneida,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
These Immortal Souls,
The Gun Club,
Qualms,
AZ,
Shoche,
Alice Coltrane,
Amon Düül II,
Newcleus,
Main Source,
Loose Ends,
Aaron Thompson,
Mo-Dettes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kool Moe Dee,
Goldenarms,
Metal Thangz,
Barrington Levy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mantronix,
Danielle Patucci,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sonic Youth,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.