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 Chile and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 China Crisis to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eric Dolphy,
Yusef Lateef,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Happenings,
Bobby Womack,
Sugar Minott,
Idris Muhammad,
Quantec,
the Human League,
Tears for Fears,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Searchers,
Heaven 17,
Robert Hood,
Lou Christie,
The Fall,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Knickerbockers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gang Green,
Ronnie Foster,
Second Layer,
Bluetip,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crime,
Simply Red,
The Dave Clark Five,
This Heat,
The Cure,
Procol Harum,
Rapeman,
Visage,
D'Angelo,
The Fugs,
Hardrive,
The Buckinghams,
Bronski Beat,
Half Japanese,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Shadows of Knight,
L. Decosne,
Aswad,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jeff Lynne,
Panda Bear,
Faust,
Nick Fraelich,
Little Man,
The Mummies,
Vladislav Delay,
Stereo Dub,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Depeche Mode,
Silicon Teens,
Surgeon,
Jandek,
Aaron Thompson,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.