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 Mauritania and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes 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 Tremeloes,
Radiohead,
Junior Murvin,
The Gap Band,
Patti Smith,
Crispy Ambulance,
Aloha Tigers,
Sarah Menescal,
John Holt,
Prince Buster,
B.T. Express,
Crash Course in Science,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ponytail,
Agitation Free,
John Cale,
Eric B and Rakim,
Charles Mingus,
Todd Rundgren,
The Monochrome Set,
Oblivians,
Kas Product,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Avey Tare,
Goldenarms,
Alice Coltrane,
the Fania All-Stars,
Peter & Gordon,
T.S.O.L.,
the Soft Cell,
Y Pants,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Das Ding,
Duran Duran,
The Buckinghams,
Henry Cow,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Animal Collective,
Eric Dolphy,
The Neon Judgement,
The Electric Prunes,
Subhumans,
The Doors,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Second Layer,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mo-Dettes,
a-ha,
David Axelrod,
The Leaves,
Judy Mowatt,
Circle Jerks,
Tres Demented,
AZ,
Cluster,
Dorothy Ashby,
Massinfluence,
Letta Mbulu,
The Barracudas,
The Kinks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eurythmics,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.