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 Guinea 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 linndrum 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 June Days to the grunge 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
K-Klass,
World's Most,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rod Modell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Subhumans,
Alton Ellis,
Brand Nubian,
Jeff Mills,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jacques Brel,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soft Machine,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sound Behaviour,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Names,
Idris Muhammad,
DNA,
Joyce Sims,
Gichy Dan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Neil Young,
This Heat,
DJ Style,
Carl Craig,
Sun Ra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Basic Channel,
The Young Rascals,
UT,
Soulsonic Force,
Tomorrow,
Gang Green,
Icehouse,
Shuggie Otis,
Todd Rundgren,
Groovy Waters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Germs,
The Cure,
Arcadia,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
PIL,
Blake Baxter,
Tears for Fears,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Graham Central Station,
Radiohead,
Rotary Connection,
Godley & Creme,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Depeche Mode,
Y Pants,
The Sonics,
Wire,
The Monochrome Set,
Lyres,
David Bowie,
The Offenders,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.