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 Grenada and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Robert Palmer 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 Popol Vuh to the jazz 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Essential Logic,
Aswad,
The Gun Club,
Joe Finger,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Yazoo,
Ralphi Rosario,
Barbara Tucker,
The Mojo Men,
Matthew Bourne,
New Age Steppers,
K-Klass,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mary Jane Girls,
Zero Boys,
Urselle,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lakeside,
Al Stewart,
Tomorrow,
Throbbing Gristle,
Amon Düül,
The Black Dice,
Maurizio,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Anthony Braxton,
Tommy Roe,
Bobby Byrd,
The Standells,
Eli Mardock,
Suicide,
Brick,
The Count Five,
LL Cool J,
Archie Shepp,
The Monochrome Set,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dead Boys,
Man Parrish,
Amon Düül II,
Aural Exciters,
Porter Ricks,
Section 25,
Parry Music,
Lou Christie,
The Fugs,
Godley & Creme,
Davy DMX,
Cymande,
Fluxion,
Qualms,
Pole,
The Walker Brothers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Aaron Thompson,
Slave,
Ultravox,
Sugar Minott,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-Ray Spex,
Delta 5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.