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 Vietnam and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Inner City to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
The Pop Group,
Nirvana,
Althea and Donna,
Boogie Down Productions,
Black Moon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Birthday Party,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pagans,
Maurizio,
Max Romeo,
Vainqueur,
The Slits,
Ultravox,
Tim Buckley,
Neil Young,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rod Modell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sex Pistols,
Pierre Henry,
Babytalk,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brand Nubian,
KRS-One,
the Sonics,
Chrome,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Soft Cell,
Ken Boothe,
DNA,
Tomorrow,
The Names,
Chris Corsano,
Zapp,
Jerry's Kids,
This Heat,
Kerri Chandler,
Funkadelic,
Matthew Halsall,
L. Decosne,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Easy Going,
Danielle Patucci,
Desert Stars,
John Holt,
Sparks,
Niagra,
Duran Duran,
Boz Scaggs,
Rosa Yemen,
Slick Rick,
Accadde A,
The Evens,
U.S. Maple,
Deepchord,
Essential Logic,
Piero Umiliani,
Motorama,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
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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.