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 Lithuania and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba 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 K-Klass to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Los Fastidios,
Radiohead,
Make Up,
Rosa Yemen,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Silicon Teens,
Neu!,
Delon & Dalcan,
Television,
Mo-Dettes,
Con Funk Shun,
Anthony Braxton,
Ituana,
Au Pairs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jimmy McGriff,
MDC,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Public Enemy,
Steve Hackett,
The Count Five,
The Kinks,
The Blues Magoos,
The Golliwogs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Crooked Eye,
Peter & Gordon,
The Monochrome Set,
The Residents,
Man Eating Sloth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Iggy Pop,
David McCallum,
The Invisible,
DJ Sneak,
Toni Rubio,
Shuggie Otis,
Television Personalities,
Erasure,
Scion,
Desert Stars,
The Fugs,
Brothers Johnson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mars,
The Gladiators,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Neil Young,
Minny Pops,
Wally Richardson,
kango's stein massive,
The Angels of Light,
Y Pants,
The Busters,
Susan Cadogan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Pierre Henry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.