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 Madagascar and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Groovy Waters to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sugar Minott,
The Victims,
One Last Wish,
Bang On A Can,
Unwound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arcadia,
X-Ray Spex,
Man Parrish,
Prince Buster,
Tommy Roe,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pierre Henry,
the Association,
Sister Nancy,
Technova,
UT,
Roger Hodgson,
Zero Boys,
Funkadelic,
Anakelly,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Dirtbombs,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Barracudas,
Suburban Knight,
Altered Images,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Order,
Soul Sonic Force,
Charles Mingus,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Evens,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Saccharine Trust,
Surgeon,
The Monks,
Skaos,
Ossler,
Panda Bear,
Babytalk,
Michelle Simonal,
Stiv Bators,
Boz Scaggs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Grauzone,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Fire Engines,
John Foxx,
The Misunderstood,
The Toasters,
The Shadows of Knight,
Thee Headcoats,
Suicide,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Moon,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.