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 Gabon and from Bremen.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ituana to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
H. Thieme,
The Skatalites,
Index,
Todd Terry,
Amon Düül,
Sight & Sound,
Skriet,
Arab on Radar,
The Angels of Light,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Glambeats Corp.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Motorama,
U.S. Maple,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Royal Trux,
David Bowie,
Chrome,
David McCallum,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pussy Galore,
Andrew Hill,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ornette Coleman,
Simply Red,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hoover,
Vladislav Delay,
Mo-Dettes,
Althea and Donna,
Rotary Connection,
Scrapy,
Suicide,
Banda Bassotti,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Barracudas,
Mandrill,
The Saints,
Arcadia,
R.M.O.,
Nirvana,
Gong,
Cybotron,
Blancmange,
Sparks,
Buzzcocks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ponytail,
The Motions,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fuzztones,
Skaos,
Pere Ubu,
Popol Vuh,
Aural Exciters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marvin Gaye,
Derrick May,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.