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 Turkmenistan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bar-Kays to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
The Last Poets,
10cc,
The Blackbyrds,
Monolake,
D'Angelo,
Half Japanese,
48th St. Collective,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Neil Young,
Nik Kershaw,
Average White Band,
Janne Schatter,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Vladislav Delay,
Circle Jerks,
Patti Smith,
The Mojo Men,
Nick Fraelich,
David McCallum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eddi Front,
Technova,
Bad Manners,
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Monochrome Set,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Amon Düül II,
ABC,
EPMD,
Terry Callier,
Colin Newman,
The J.B.'s,
T.S.O.L.,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Avey Tare,
Judy Mowatt,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
China Crisis,
Faust,
Bush Tetras,
Gabor Szabo,
The Move,
Index,
Anthony Braxton,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Cheater Slicks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bang On A Can,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rekid,
Sparks,
Hardrive,
Porter Ricks,
Bronski Beat,
Gil Scott Heron,
Aural Exciters,
Tropical Tobacco,
Byron Stingily,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.