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 Fiji and from Tokyo.
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 Copenhagen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare 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 Jesus and Mary Chain to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Porter Ricks,
Piero Umiliani,
X-102,
Sun City Girls,
Lee Hazlewood,
Oblivians,
Yazoo,
Matthew Halsall,
H. Thieme,
Sarah Menescal,
CMW,
Zero Boys,
New Age Steppers,
The Blues Magoos,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Byron Stingily,
Mad Mike,
Severed Heads,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Amon Düül II,
The Monochrome Set,
Minutemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jacob Miller,
The Durutti Column,
Marcia Griffiths,
Circle Jerks,
Funky Four + One,
Connie Case,
Barrington Levy,
Warren Ellis,
Kerri Chandler,
Pussy Galore,
The Standells,
Q and Not U,
EPMD,
Crash Course in Science,
Laurel Aitken,
Isaac Hayes,
Essential Logic,
Idris Muhammad,
Cymande,
Television Personalities,
The Shadows of Knight,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jeff Mills,
Organ,
Curtis Mayfield,
Yaz,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fugazi,
Crispian St. Peters,
Slave,
Lou Reed,
Robert Görl,
Bobby Womack,
The Mojo Men,
The Names,
The Seeds,
Robert Hood,
Jerry Gold Smith,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.