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 United Kingdom and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 harpsichord 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 Davy DMX to the electroclash 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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Judy Mowatt,
Dual Sessions,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mars,
Absolute Body Control,
Lebanon Hanover,
Camberwell Now,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marcia Griffiths,
Yusef Lateef,
Glenn Branca,
E-Dancer,
T. Rex,
Unwound,
The Gap Band,
Shoche,
The Beau Brummels,
World's Most,
The Kinks,
Lakeside,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Dead C,
Man Parrish,
DNA,
the Soft Cell,
Pagans,
The J.B.'s,
Magma,
Aural Exciters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gichy Dan,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dave Gahan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ice-T,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Names,
Freddie Wadling,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lyres,
Country Teasers,
Electric Prunes,
Minny Pops,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cure,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Newcleus,
K-Klass,
Jerry's Kids,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eric B and Rakim,
Peter and Kerry,
Marvin Gaye,
Lou Christie,
Man Eating Sloth,
Maleditus Sound,
Roxette,
Minnie Riperton,
Bad Manners,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.