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 Slovenia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
The Durutti Column,
Isaac Hayes,
MC5,
Dennis Brown,
Siglo XX,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sugar Minott,
Rapeman,
Dark Day,
The Modern Lovers,
Fad Gadget,
Danielle Patucci,
Half Japanese,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Niagra,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fear,
H. Thieme,
Mars,
The Associates,
Dawn Penn,
Clear Light,
John Foxx,
Glambeats Corp.,
Hasil Adkins,
Royal Trux,
Marcia Griffiths,
10cc,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ornette Coleman,
The Doobie Brothers,
CMW,
Nas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David McCallum,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Johnny Clarke,
Fluxion,
Scion,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Misunderstood,
Schoolly D,
The Moody Blues,
Jeff Mills,
Blossom Toes,
The Divine Comedy,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fall,
the Normal,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
ABC,
The Offenders,
Andrew Hill,
Circle Jerks,
Lakeside,
David Bowie,
Neu!,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Real Kids,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.