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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the punk 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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
The Fortunes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kool Moe Dee,
Tim Buckley,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Warsaw,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gong,
China Crisis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Laurel Aitken,
Infiniti,
Organ,
Crash Course in Science,
Quando Quango,
Visage,
Khruangbin,
Sound Behaviour,
Camouflage,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scratch Acid,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Parry Music,
Matthew Halsall,
Kayak,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ludus,
Terry Callier,
Sixth Finger,
The Mummies,
Das Ding,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ossler,
The Cure,
Bootsy Collins,
Eric B and Rakim,
Agitation Free,
Janne Schatter,
The Monochrome Set,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
EPMD,
Bush Tetras,
Hoover,
R.M.O.,
The Standells,
Black Sheep,
The Move,
The Toasters,
Faraquet,
Soft Machine,
Bobby Sherman,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dawn Penn,
Glambeats Corp.,
Shoche,
Brothers Johnson,
Kaleidoscope,
Sonny Sharrock,
CMW,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.