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 Djibouti and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Warsaw to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
CMW,
LL Cool J,
Todd Terry,
The Fugs,
Los Fastidios,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Gap Band,
Panda Bear,
New York Dolls,
Faraquet,
Ultimate Spinach,
UT,
Scan 7,
Oneida,
Fatback Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Zapp,
Sam Rivers,
Interpol,
PIL,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Brick,
Blancmange,
Public Image Ltd.,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alison Limerick,
8 Eyed Spy,
Alphaville,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Wings,
Clear Light,
Jacob Miller,
Fela Kuti,
Laurel Aitken,
Lou Christie,
The Toasters,
Loose Ends,
MDC,
Peter and Kerry,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Invisible,
Bob Dylan,
Quantec,
Easy Going,
The Stooges,
Sun City Girls,
Cecil Taylor,
Ice-T,
Alton Ellis,
The Red Krayola,
Frankie Knuckles,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Silicon Teens,
John Lydon,
a-ha,
Flash Fearless,
kango's stein massive,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.