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 Paraguay and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the jazz 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
The Dead C,
Black Flag,
Half Japanese,
Tom Boy,
the Human League,
Angry Samoans,
Section 25,
Funky Four + One,
Radiohead,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ornette Coleman,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Hashim,
Fluxion,
Derrick May,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Radio Birdman,
Tears for Fears,
The Zeros,
New Age Steppers,
JFA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joensuu 1685,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
D'Angelo,
FM Einheit,
Amazonics,
Amon Düül,
Althea and Donna,
These Immortal Souls,
Interpol,
The Golliwogs,
Letta Mbulu,
Wolf Eyes,
PIL,
Eden Ahbez,
Marvin Gaye,
Steve Hackett,
Janne Schatter,
Bush Tetras,
Oneida,
Roy Ayers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Index,
Bob Dylan,
Monks,
Joe Smooth,
DJ Style,
Stetsasonic,
Moss Icon,
U.S. Maple,
Patti Smith,
Bad Manners,
Ituana,
The Vogues,
The Gories,
The Gap Band,
OOIOO,
Ossler,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.