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 Finland and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Dennis Brown to the techno 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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 Pop Group,
ABBA,
cv313,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
This Heat,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Beau Brummels,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tears for Fears,
Public Enemy,
Guru Guru,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Spoonie Gee,
The Cure,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Tom Boy,
La Düsseldorf,
DJ Style,
Dawn Penn,
Suicide,
Ludus,
The Sound,
Echospace,
Alton Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Max Romeo,
Lightning Bolt,
Jacob Miller,
Marc Almond,
D'Angelo,
Agent Orange,
Anthony Braxton,
The Index,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Move,
Deakin,
Sarah Menescal,
Junior Murvin,
the Swans,
Cecil Taylor,
Alice Coltrane,
David Axelrod,
Chris & Cosey,
The Fortunes,
Boz Scaggs,
Avey Tare,
The Toasters,
Scratch Acid,
Althea and Donna,
Aswad,
Infiniti,
Alison Limerick,
Stetsasonic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.