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 El Salvador and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the techno 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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Traffic Nightmare,
Quantec,
Ronan,
One Last Wish,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Real Kids,
Absolute Body Control,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scratch Acid,
E-Dancer,
Funkadelic,
Eric Copeland,
Leonard Cohen,
Eddi Front,
Bootsy Collins,
Rufus Thomas,
Hardrive,
Sugar Minott,
Robert Hood,
Cameo,
Gichy Dan,
Henry Cow,
The Count Five,
PIL,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Moon,
Sarah Menescal,
World's Most,
Blake Baxter,
Electric Prunes,
Flash Fearless,
X-Ray Spex,
AZ,
The Gladiators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Junior Murvin,
Ossler,
China Crisis,
Agitation Free,
The Grass Roots,
Gang Green,
Zapp,
DNA,
The Moleskins,
Ituana,
Sällskapet,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hasil Adkins,
Roxette,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rotary Connection,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lucky Dragons,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Funky Four + One,
Big Daddy Kane,
Animal Collective,
Technova,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.