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 Iraq and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Seoul.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Guru Guru to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Angry Samoans,
The Music Machine,
Lee Hazlewood,
Half Japanese,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Monochrome Set,
The Buckinghams,
The Fugs,
The Red Krayola,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Severed Heads,
David Bowie,
Kool Moe Dee,
China Crisis,
Tears for Fears,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nik Kershaw,
Con Funk Shun,
The Fall,
Index,
Marcia Griffiths,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
E-Dancer,
Peter & Gordon,
Kaleidoscope,
John Foxx,
The Motions,
The Saints,
Pet Shop Boys,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sexual Harrassment,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mantronix,
The Walker Brothers,
The Star Department,
Oneida,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Thee Headcoats,
Scion,
Blossom Toes,
The Invisible,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Barbara Tucker,
Grey Daturas,
Flipper,
Skriet,
Motorama,
Donny Hathaway,
Toni Rubio,
Eddi Front,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nick Fraelich,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Accadde A,
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.