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 Syria and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Godley & Creme to the jazz 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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Y Pants,
Guru Guru,
Connie Case,
Isaac Hayes,
Cecil Taylor,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
AZ,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Flipper,
Joey Negro,
Black Flag,
Jeff Mills,
Main Source,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Divine Comedy,
John Cale,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Knickerbockers,
Al Stewart,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gregory Isaacs,
One Last Wish,
LL Cool J,
Ronnie Foster,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Swans,
The Misunderstood,
Lightning Bolt,
Glenn Branca,
Kerri Chandler,
Stetsasonic,
The Wake,
Anakelly,
DNA,
Joy Division,
Saccharine Trust,
The Mojo Men,
Suburban Knight,
Oblivians,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Residents,
The Seeds,
Jacob Miller,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
EPMD,
kango's stein massive,
Echospace,
Anthony Braxton,
La Düsseldorf,
Fluxion,
D'Angelo,
Lucky Dragons,
Bluetip,
The Shadows of Knight,
Television Personalities,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Minor Threat,
Radiohead,
Gang of Four,
Tropical Tobacco,
Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas.
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.