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 Hungary and from Spokane.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes 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 David Axelrod to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
The Modern Lovers,
The Five Americans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ice-T,
LL Cool J,
Harmonia,
Slick Rick,
Pet Shop Boys,
Goldenarms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slackers,
Crime,
Gregory Isaacs,
T. Rex,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Glenn Branca,
One Last Wish,
Nils Olav,
The Pop Group,
Bobby Byrd,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grauzone,
Babytalk,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lower 48,
Maurizio,
Bill Wells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eric Copeland,
MDC,
Robert Wyatt,
the Normal,
Heaven 17,
Spoonie Gee,
The Slits,
Eddi Front,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kool Moe Dee,
Tropical Tobacco,
Joy Division,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jeff Lynne,
Blake Baxter,
Judy Mowatt,
Urselle,
Maleditus Sound,
Fatback Band,
The Kinks,
Jacques Brel,
The Alarm Clocks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Count Five,
Lalo Schifrin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Nick Fraelich,
Soft Cell,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Clear Light,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.