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 Kazakhstan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Toronto.
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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Remains to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mad Mike,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Urselle,
Brass Construction,
Flipper,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Pretty Things,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Average White Band,
KRS-One,
Funky Four + One,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Gap Band,
K-Klass,
Cheater Slicks,
Arthur Verocai,
Wally Richardson,
Gichy Dan,
The Fortunes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ohio Players,
Sällskapet,
Arab on Radar,
Khruangbin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Red Krayola,
Erykah Badu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Smoke,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joey Negro,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Drexciya,
June of 44,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dark Day,
Moebius,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Crooked Eye,
Sister Nancy,
The Dead C,
Kas Product,
Todd Terry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lightning Bolt,
Deakin,
LL Cool J,
Byron Stingily,
Talk Talk,
Sexual Harrassment,
Grey Daturas,
Minutemen,
Sugar Minott,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Carl Craig,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.