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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 güiro 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 Alton Ellis to the jazz 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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
Subhumans,
U.S. Maple,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Stereo Dub,
Aloha Tigers,
Ornette Coleman,
Joe Finger,
Sonic Youth,
This Heat,
Bronski Beat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Walker Brothers,
Thompson Twins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Essential Logic,
Newcleus,
Freddie Wadling,
Procol Harum,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Black Moon,
Mission of Burma,
Stiv Bators,
Ronnie Foster,
Negative Approach,
John Holt,
Excepter,
Mantronix,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Faust,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sam Rivers,
Sound Behaviour,
Whodini,
Piero Umiliani,
Scan 7,
Blake Baxter,
Harpers Bizarre,
Japan,
Nils Olav,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
World's Most,
X-102,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Robert Görl,
Fatback Band,
Q and Not U,
kango's stein massive,
B.T. Express,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gichy Dan,
The Blues Magoos,
Janne Schatter,
Eddi Front,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Thee Headcoats,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Depeche Mode,
Absolute Body Control,
Neil Young,
Kerrie Biddell,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.