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 Poland and from Calgary.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba 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 Jeff Lynne to the crunk 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Funkadelic,
Supertramp,
Bootsy Collins,
The Mojo Men,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Drexciya,
Quando Quango,
CMW,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Sonics,
Rosa Yemen,
Massinfluence,
Sandy B,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aloha Tigers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Smog,
The Alarm Clocks,
Don Cherry,
Jeff Lynne,
Livin' Joy,
Pantytec,
The Gun Club,
The Count Five,
Charles Mingus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Unwound,
Icehouse,
Lalann,
Dual Sessions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric Dolphy,
John Cale,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ice-T,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Joy Division,
X-101,
Deakin,
Connie Case,
Cecil Taylor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grandmaster Flash,
Prince Buster,
Nils Olav,
Black Sheep,
Brick,
Letta Mbulu,
Mo-Dettes,
Stereo Dub,
Gang of Four,
Pylon,
Television Personalities,
Tears for Fears,
Harmonia,
T. Rex,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Technova,
Dawn Penn,
Pharoah Sanders,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.