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 Namibia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Black Flag to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
World's Most,
Saccharine Trust,
Gang Green,
Goldenarms,
Malaria!,
Tears for Fears,
Charles Mingus,
Laurel Aitken,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Martian,
The Moleskins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Soft Cell,
Joy Division,
New Order,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Techniques,
Funkadelic,
Barbara Tucker,
The Cramps,
Jawbox,
Smog,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Underground Resistance,
The Fall,
Erasure,
A Certain Ratio,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Second Layer,
Wasted Youth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Audionom,
Grauzone,
Mission of Burma,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Blackbyrds,
The Music Machine,
OOIOO,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fela Kuti,
Bob Dylan,
Black Bananas,
Ossler,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Severed Heads,
Shuggie Otis,
Althea and Donna,
Bobby Byrd,
Soulsonic Force,
Mars,
Jimmy McGriff,
Mad Mike,
Black Flag,
Gang Starr,
Ohio Players,
Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav.
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.