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 Hungary and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Toasters to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 UT. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monks,
Little Man,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camouflage,
Thompson Twins,
Roy Ayers,
Hardrive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yazoo,
Jerry's Kids,
Ornette Coleman,
Freddie Wadling,
Outsiders,
Underground Resistance,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fad Gadget,
Sugar Minott,
Aural Exciters,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cure,
Bang On A Can,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bad Manners,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ronnie Foster,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Joy Division,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Moebius,
Wolf Eyes,
Amon Düül,
Fatback Band,
the Bar-Kays,
Iggy Pop,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Susan Cadogan,
The American Breed,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
E-Dancer,
Alton Ellis,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Knickerbockers,
Johnny Clarke,
U.S. Maple,
The Index,
Dennis Brown,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Model 500,
The Human League,
Johnny Osbourne,
The New Christs,
R.M.O.,
The Gap Band,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.