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 Netherlands and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Madrid.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Whodini to the jazz 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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Bowie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Eric Dolphy,
Jawbox,
Soulsonic Force,
Adolescents,
Khruangbin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Henry Cow,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Easy Going,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Malaria!,
The Zeros,
Moby Grape,
Spandau Ballet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lakeside,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Erasure,
June Days,
The J.B.'s,
Dennis Brown,
Moebius,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Black Pus,
LL Cool J,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ronan,
Man Parrish,
Bauhaus,
Mantronix,
Infiniti,
John Foxx,
Zero Boys,
Lou Christie,
Colin Newman,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Niagra,
Roy Ayers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Juan Atkins,
CMW,
Marc Almond,
Organ,
Hardrive,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Pop Group,
Rotary Connection,
the Sonics,
Half Japanese,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Unrelated Segments,
Inner City,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ken Boothe,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.