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 Mozambique and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 linndrum 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 Lyres to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
John Lydon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Connie Case,
Pantytec,
Skarface,
Bootsy Collins,
Skaos,
Suburban Knight,
David Bowie,
Scratch Acid,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ten City,
Idris Muhammad,
Cymande,
The Detroit Cobras,
Marine Girls,
Howard Jones,
Swell Maps,
Sandy B,
Supertramp,
Pantaleimon,
The Pretty Things,
Hasil Adkins,
Trumans Water,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bobby Womack,
Pharoah Sanders,
Organ,
Janne Schatter,
Boz Scaggs,
The Martian,
Nik Kershaw,
Glenn Branca,
F. McDonald,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ossler,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Brand Nubian,
Al Stewart,
The Invisible,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pylon,
The Raincoats,
Kurtis Blow,
The Durutti Column,
LL Cool J,
Easy Going,
The Neon Judgement,
Rhythm & Sound,
Essential Logic,
Radiohead,
Kaleidoscope,
Lightning Bolt,
Bronski Beat,
Girls At Our Best!,
Oblivians,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.