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 Suriname and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Oblivians to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Von Mondo,
New York Dolls,
CMW,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fear,
The Modern Lovers,
Soulsonic Force,
Kerrie Biddell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
David Axelrod,
Arcadia,
John Cale,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Tomorrow,
Oneida,
Loose Ends,
Average White Band,
Roxy Music,
Ultimate Spinach,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jeff Lynne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Robert Wyatt,
Donald Byrd,
Neu!,
In Retrospect,
Marmalade,
Boredoms,
Lyres,
Janne Schatter,
Spoonie Gee,
The Busters,
Flipper,
Faraquet,
Black Sheep,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Offenders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Freddie Wadling,
One Last Wish,
The Motions,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
Aural Exciters,
Tim Buckley,
The Birthday Party,
Metal Thangz,
Junior Murvin,
Little Man,
Severed Heads,
Grauzone,
Moby Grape,
Icehouse,
Dead Boys,
Lou Reed,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
DNA,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.