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 Luxembourg and from Jakarta.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Buzzcocks to the funk 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Tropical Tobacco,
Swans,
Robert Görl,
Roxette,
David McCallum,
Eden Ahbez,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crime,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Delta 5,
Section 25,
Brass Construction,
Thee Headcoats,
The Martian,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Association,
the Sonics,
Main Source,
Desert Stars,
The Fire Engines,
Mad Mike,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lower 48,
Black Flag,
Nico,
K-Klass,
Carl Craig,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Saccharine Trust,
A Certain Ratio,
Fad Gadget,
MC5,
New Order,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gong,
Guru Guru,
Connie Case,
Wings,
Unrelated Segments,
Fluxion,
The Blackbyrds,
Lakeside,
Moss Icon,
The Electric Prunes,
Black Sheep,
Chris Corsano,
Absolute Body Control,
The Slackers,
Sam Rivers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Mummies,
Mars,
Laurel Aitken,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lungfish,
Peter and Kerry,
B.T. Express,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.