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 France and from Lyon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Copenhagen.
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 güiro 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Drive Like Jehu,
Roxy Music,
The Walker Brothers,
Urselle,
Tom Boy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Fortunes,
Ohio Players,
Nils Olav,
Patti Smith,
The Grass Roots,
The Music Machine,
Marcia Griffiths,
Skaos,
The Angels of Light,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Subhumans,
Ronnie Foster,
Technova,
Simply Red,
Kerri Chandler,
Lou Christie,
The Flesh Eaters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Associates,
LL Cool J,
The Index,
Dark Day,
Porter Ricks,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Stooges,
Kool Moe Dee,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
kango's stein massive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Y Pants,
Bootsy Collins,
Shoche,
Letta Mbulu,
Bob Dylan,
Joensuu 1685,
David McCallum,
Desert Stars,
Robert Hood,
Spandau Ballet,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Busters,
Con Funk Shun,
Lou Reed,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Skarface,
Model 500,
Zapp,
Stiv Bators,
The Trojans,
Fela Kuti,
The Blackbyrds,
The Gap Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.