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 Greece and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Clear Light to the crunk 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ten City,
The Busters,
Severed Heads,
CMW,
The Last Poets,
Rakim,
Neu!,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
B.T. Express,
Pantaleimon,
Soft Machine,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Swans,
Swans,
The Names,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roxy Music,
The Gladiators,
Underground Resistance,
Unwound,
Audionom,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mandrill,
The Walker Brothers,
Juan Atkins,
Young Marble Giants,
10cc,
Youth Brigade,
Oneida,
Agent Orange,
Sonny Sharrock,
Delta 5,
Urselle,
Subhumans,
OOIOO,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Brick,
Sound Behaviour,
Lalo Schifrin,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gichy Dan,
Echospace,
Nik Kershaw,
Pierre Henry,
Dark Day,
Adolescents,
Donald Byrd,
One Last Wish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Five Americans,
Althea and Donna,
Mars,
Japan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cheater Slicks,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.