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 Indonesia and from Salvador.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Sandy B to the jazz 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Freddie Wadling tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
These Immortal Souls,
Clear Light,
Bang On A Can,
B.T. Express,
Ultravox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Guru Guru,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grey Daturas,
The Skatalites,
Sam Rivers,
Zapp,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dave Gahan,
LL Cool J,
Soul Sonic Force,
Junior Murvin,
the Slits,
JFA,
Index,
Nik Kershaw,
The Happenings,
Gabor Szabo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Anakelly,
Rufus Thomas,
Second Layer,
Skarface,
Ice-T,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pantaleimon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Maurizio,
Rekid,
Ludus,
Dual Sessions,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Gories,
Fatback Band,
Babytalk,
The Offenders,
The Techniques,
The Smoke,
Aaron Thompson,
The Stooges,
Bad Manners,
Rites of Spring,
Rod Modell,
Vainqueur,
Ossler,
Subhumans,
Oneida,
the Sonics,
Ronan,
The Zeros,
Donald Byrd,
World's Most,
EPMD,
The Motions,
Charles Mingus,
Royal Trux,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.