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 Lyon.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 sitar 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 Black Moon to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Jacques Brel,
Sparks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Tom Boy,
Essential Logic,
Max Romeo,
Funky Four + One,
Urselle,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Subhumans,
Soft Cell,
Slick Rick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Moby Grape,
Blancmange,
Bobby Womack,
LL Cool J,
Porter Ricks,
Lakeside,
Isaac Hayes,
Neil Young,
Parry Music,
Livin' Joy,
Warsaw,
Ten City,
Loose Ends,
OOIOO,
Dennis Brown,
The Gap Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Second Layer,
the Soft Cell,
Sex Pistols,
Pere Ubu,
Visage,
World's Most,
Talk Talk,
The Birthday Party,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Cal Tjader,
Quantec,
New Order,
Mark Hollis,
Judy Mowatt,
X-102,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ice-T,
Godley & Creme,
Radiohead,
The Smiths,
Unrelated Segments,
Todd Rundgren,
Erasure,
Altered Images,
Metal Thangz,
Brothers Johnson,
The Vogues,
David Axelrod,
Eric Dolphy,
Joe Finger,
Kas Product,
Nas,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.