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 Malaysia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 organ 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 10cc 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lindisfarne,
The Happenings,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lyres,
Sound Behaviour,
Black Pus,
Amon Düül,
Aswad,
The Divine Comedy,
Cal Tjader,
Aloha Tigers,
Fluxion,
PIL,
E-Dancer,
Model 500,
Ludus,
Eric Dolphy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Toni Rubio,
CMW,
The Gap Band,
Can,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Suicide,
Wings,
Bobby Sherman,
Shoche,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Grey Daturas,
The Real Kids,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Neil Young,
Andrew Hill,
The Remains,
Gichy Dan,
Chris Corsano,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Section 25,
Metal Thangz,
Youth Brigade,
Amon Düül II,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Sheep,
Nation of Ulysses,
Radiohead,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fire Engines,
Pere Ubu,
Excepter,
The Barracudas,
D'Angelo,
Frankie Knuckles,
X-101,
Nick Fraelich,
Dorothy Ashby,
Angry Samoans,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.