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 Cape Verde and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum 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 Crispian St. Peters to the rock 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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
JFA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Star Department,
Metal Thangz,
Shoche,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
David McCallum,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
EPMD,
Bobby Womack,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soul II Soul,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Grass Roots,
Todd Rundgren,
Heaven 17,
The Monochrome Set,
Jacob Miller,
Negative Approach,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Knickerbockers,
The Busters,
Bluetip,
Terry Callier,
Mad Mike,
Erykah Badu,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eli Mardock,
kango's stein massive,
Essential Logic,
Pussy Galore,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lindisfarne,
Sex Pistols,
Laurel Aitken,
X-101,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nas,
Pylon,
Agent Orange,
Albert Ayler,
The Remains,
Minny Pops,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dennis Brown,
Mary Jane Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Newcleus,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kerri Chandler,
The Electric Prunes,
Supertramp,
Magma,
Skaos,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Harmonia,
Angry Samoans,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.