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 Belize and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the clarinet 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the techno 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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Stiv Bators,
Scan 7,
Bobby Womack,
Joy Division,
The American Breed,
Ossler,
The Move,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crash Course in Science,
The Golliwogs,
The Human League,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Fire Engines,
Tom Boy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
D'Angelo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Roxette,
Bill Wells,
Animal Collective,
Intrusion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Moleskins,
Tears for Fears,
Camberwell Now,
Cecil Taylor,
Smog,
Soulsonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Slackers,
David McCallum,
Echospace,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Flash Fearless,
Skriet,
Yaz,
Livin' Joy,
Newcleus,
The Evens,
The Blackbyrds,
Kurtis Blow,
Sister Nancy,
The Sonics,
Radiopuhelimet,
Moby Grape,
Motorama,
Angry Samoans,
The Walker Brothers,
Sound Behaviour,
Donald Byrd,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
UT,
Reuben Wilson,
The Misunderstood,
The Moody Blues,
Man Parrish,
Quando Quango,
Spoonie Gee,
Electric Prunes,
Bob Dylan,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.