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 Liechtenstein and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 theremin 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 Robert Görl to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
In Retrospect,
Gerry Rafferty,
Easy Going,
Grauzone,
Gang Starr,
David Axelrod,
Funkadelic,
Gichy Dan,
Make Up,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Yusef Lateef,
Con Funk Shun,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bobby Womack,
AZ,
Bluetip,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sonics,
Tubeway Army,
Fela Kuti,
the Fania All-Stars,
Wasted Youth,
The Gun Club,
Harry Pussy,
Fugazi,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tomorrow,
Soul Sonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Robert Hood,
The Vogues,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fall,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Gories,
The Walker Brothers,
Monolake,
The United States of America,
Shuggie Otis,
Eli Mardock,
X-102,
The Doors,
Hashim,
U.S. Maple,
Rod Modell,
Peter and Kerry,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Dead C,
Delta 5,
Young Marble Giants,
Darondo,
Avey Tare,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Can,
Nirvana,
ABBA,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.