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 Dominican Republic and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pere Ubu to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Danielle Patucci,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mission of Burma,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mars,
Harmonia,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Siglo XX,
Rekid,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Mighty Diamonds,
CMW,
Mr. Review,
Quando Quango,
The Gories,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Doors,
Scott Walker,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kas Product,
The Tremeloes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Chris Corsano,
Kayak,
Althea and Donna,
The Happenings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Absolute Body Control,
Sam Rivers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Procol Harum,
Eurythmics,
Lou Christie,
Skriet,
Brick,
Visage,
Tres Demented,
Das Ding,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Niagra,
Lindisfarne,
Schoolly D,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Angels of Light,
Roy Ayers,
Matthew Halsall,
Byron Stingily,
Yellowson,
Thompson Twins,
Average White Band,
H. Thieme,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Model 500,
Maurizio,
Easy Going,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Half Japanese,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.