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 Suriname and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Martian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Black Flag,
Yazoo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Erasure,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Accadde A,
Cluster,
Absolute Body Control,
Sarah Menescal,
Agent Orange,
The Fall,
Traffic Nightmare,
Outsiders,
Animal Collective,
The Residents,
Slave,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lou Christie,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bauhaus,
Simply Red,
Harpers Bizarre,
Unrelated Segments,
OOIOO,
Maurizio,
Judy Mowatt,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Michelle Simonal,
Bush Tetras,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nas,
Pole,
Deepchord,
Big Daddy Kane,
Quando Quango,
Quantec,
Wolf Eyes,
The Associates,
Schoolly D,
FM Einheit,
Deadbeat,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Moon,
Kurtis Blow,
Tommy Roe,
Pylon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lungfish,
New Order,
John Foxx,
Wings,
Masters at Work,
Los Fastidios,
The Cramps,
Alton Ellis,
Terry Callier,
Nirvana,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.