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 Georgia and from Spokane.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Negative Approach to the jazz 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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Shuggie Otis,
Scan 7,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eli Mardock,
Funkadelic,
Warsaw,
Gil Scott Heron,
Skaos,
Jeff Mills,
This Heat,
Japan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Piero Umiliani,
The Last Poets,
James White and The Blacks,
Skriet,
June of 44,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Bananas,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grauzone,
Agitation Free,
a-ha,
Excepter,
Porter Ricks,
KRS-One,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed,
CMW,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Quadrant,
The Young Rascals,
Minnie Riperton,
Scott Walker,
Rhythm & Sound,
Magazine,
The Motions,
Kerrie Biddell,
Quantec,
Dave Gahan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Matthew Halsall,
Camouflage,
Tommy Roe,
Barclay James Harvest,
Absolute Body Control,
Anthony Braxton,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jacob Miller,
Quando Quango,
K-Klass,
10cc,
Theoretical Girls,
Brick,
Alton Ellis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Charles Mingus,
Q65,
U.S. Maple,
Television Personalities,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.