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 Denmark and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quadrant,
MC5,
UT,
The Pop Group,
Boz Scaggs,
This Heat,
Yusef Lateef,
Mark Hollis,
Index,
Ronnie Foster,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gang Starr,
Anakelly,
The Sonics,
Television Personalities,
Newcleus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Average White Band,
The Real Kids,
Bronski Beat,
Michelle Simonal,
The Cure,
Maurizio,
EPMD,
The Names,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rod Modell,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Remains,
Ohio Players,
Massinfluence,
U.S. Maple,
The Tremeloes,
Little Man,
Anthony Braxton,
Half Japanese,
The Motions,
Spoonie Gee,
The Moody Blues,
Colin Newman,
Matthew Halsall,
Vainqueur,
The Fugs,
Tears for Fears,
Laurel Aitken,
D'Angelo,
China Crisis,
R.M.O.,
Siglo XX,
Outsiders,
AZ,
The Slackers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jeff Lynne,
Au Pairs,
Nils Olav,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rakim, Rakim, Rakim, Rakim.
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.