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 Vanuatu and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes 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 F. McDonald to the crunk 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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Audionom,
Kas Product,
Icehouse,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Motorama,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Music Machine,
Altered Images,
Radiohead,
Junior Murvin,
Gong,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moby Grape,
Letta Mbulu,
The Walker Brothers,
OOIOO,
Kerri Chandler,
Danielle Patucci,
Flipper,
Soft Machine,
Zapp,
Roger Hodgson,
Barry Ungar,
Franke,
Angry Samoans,
The Fuzztones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ten City,
The Busters,
Index,
One Last Wish,
Marvin Gaye,
Scott Walker,
Sarah Menescal,
Wasted Youth,
This Heat,
Cluster,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Morten Harket,
Ituana,
Banda Bassotti,
Brass Construction,
Bad Manners,
Popol Vuh,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tommy Roe,
Sonic Youth,
Jeff Lynne,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Barbara Tucker,
10cc,
Section 25,
Ornette Coleman,
Fad Gadget,
Yusef Lateef,
Gil Scott Heron,
Quantec,
Rakim,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dennis Brown,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joyce Sims,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.