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 Nicaragua and from Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Cosmic Jokers to the funk 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock 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 funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Yazoo,
Soft Machine,
Accadde A,
The Young Rascals,
Josef K,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Henry Cow,
Theoretical Girls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
David Bowie,
Eurythmics,
Rakim,
Buzzcocks,
Prince Buster,
The Martian,
Blossom Toes,
Chris Corsano,
Country Teasers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mandrill,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fluxion,
Marcia Griffiths,
David Axelrod,
Piero Umiliani,
Newcleus,
Lightning Bolt,
Marc Almond,
Hardrive,
Guru Guru,
Althea and Donna,
Dorothy Ashby,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Aswad,
Audionom,
Jacques Brel,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Barracudas,
Oneida,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radio Birdman,
L. Decosne,
Iggy Pop,
Pere Ubu,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Music Machine,
Clear Light,
Robert Görl,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Absolute Body Control,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.