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 Kenya and from Manila.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Matthew Bourne to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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 Modern Lovers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pulsallama,
Fugazi,
Camberwell Now,
Aural Exciters,
Wire,
The Litter,
Swell Maps,
Arcadia,
Gabor Szabo,
Jawbox,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eric Dolphy,
Blossom Toes,
Barbara Tucker,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Godley & Creme,
UT,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Maleditus Sound,
Sun Ra,
Lou Christie,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Section 25,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Golliwogs,
The Walker Brothers,
Goldenarms,
Erasure,
The Gun Club,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Stetsasonic,
a-ha,
Vladislav Delay,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultravox,
Hashim,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ituana,
Shoche,
Quadrant,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dave Gahan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Count Five,
The Evens,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
X-102,
The Birthday Party,
The Zeros,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Carl Craig,
Eli Mardock,
Charles Mingus,
Grandmaster Flash,
ABBA,
Ronnie Foster,
The American Breed,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.