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 Honduras and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camberwell Now to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
the Association,
Danielle Patucci,
The Gun Club,
Boredoms,
Ronnie Foster,
James White and The Blacks,
Stereo Dub,
Man Parrish,
The Smoke,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eddi Front,
Camouflage,
DJ Sneak,
The Gladiators,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gong,
Urselle,
Outsiders,
John Foxx,
Ten City,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eurythmics,
Model 500,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alphaville,
The Searchers,
FM Einheit,
The Velvet Underground,
Crispy Ambulance,
Quando Quango,
Scott Walker,
Godley & Creme,
Alison Limerick,
Marmalade,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Andrew Hill,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Leonard Cohen,
Joensuu 1685,
Kas Product,
Vladislav Delay,
The Star Department,
T.S.O.L.,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Litter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Josef K,
Jeru the Damaja,
Black Flag,
Suicide,
Organ,
World's Most,
Crash Course in Science,
Mission of Burma,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Joe Finger,
Ituana,
R.M.O.,
Ultra Naté,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.