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 Swaziland and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ponytail to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Index. All the underground hits.
All The Last Poets tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Fire Engines,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jawbox,
Joy Division,
Essential Logic,
Nico,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bizarre Inc.,
Connie Case,
Metal Thangz,
Albert Ayler,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Zapp,
Amon Düül II,
Stereo Dub,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kenny Larkin,
Roy Ayers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Depeche Mode,
Joensuu 1685,
Babytalk,
Chris Corsano,
The Gladiators,
The Fugs,
Ponytail,
Shoche,
Fatback Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Doors,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sixth Finger,
Saccharine Trust,
Lakeside,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Public Enemy,
The Skatalites,
Pere Ubu,
Infiniti,
Moby Grape,
The Walker Brothers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Althea and Donna,
Duran Duran,
X-101,
Scrapy,
The Leaves,
the Swans,
Anthony Braxton,
Davy DMX,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fluxion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
AZ,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eden Ahbez,
The Vogues,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.