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 Belarus and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 organ 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 The Happenings 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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Frankie Knuckles,
Essential Logic,
Interpol,
Supertramp,
The Divine Comedy,
The Gories,
Marshall Jefferson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nico,
June Days,
Roy Ayers,
Schoolly D,
The Smoke,
Parry Music,
the Sonics,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bootsy Collins,
The Blackbyrds,
Joyce Sims,
Average White Band,
Eric Copeland,
Bobby Womack,
Sound Behaviour,
David Bowie,
Brass Construction,
Boz Scaggs,
Bauhaus,
Saccharine Trust,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Letta Mbulu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Vogues,
Lalann,
Porter Ricks,
The Mummies,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Negative Approach,
The Slackers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dark Day,
Radiopuhelimet,
Model 500,
Excepter,
Amon Düül,
Intrusion,
DNA,
Spoonie Gee,
The Walker Brothers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Von Mondo,
Adolescents,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fat Boys,
Al Stewart,
U.S. Maple,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camouflage,
Aaron Thompson,
The Monochrome Set,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.