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 Tunisia and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Mo-Dettes to the dance 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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Buzzcocks,
Kenny Larkin,
Ossler,
Juan Atkins,
UT,
Bobby Sherman,
Reuben Wilson,
Con Funk Shun,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tommy Roe,
Nas,
Darondo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Schoolly D,
Silicon Teens,
a-ha,
David Axelrod,
Derrick Morgan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sex Pistols,
Yazoo,
X-Ray Spex,
Josef K,
Charles Mingus,
Robert Görl,
Nik Kershaw,
Prince Buster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Suburban Knight,
The Raincoats,
Accadde A,
New York Dolls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ultra Naté,
E-Dancer,
Archie Shepp,
Junior Murvin,
JFA,
Graham Central Station,
Lalo Schifrin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Visage,
Supertramp,
Amon Düül II,
The Gladiators,
June of 44,
Howard Jones,
Jandek,
Lindisfarne,
Television,
Icehouse,
The Kinks,
Nick Fraelich,
Thompson Twins,
Soft Cell,
Soft Machine,
Quadrant,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.