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 Kenya and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes 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 Throbbing Gristle to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Cymande,
Rod Modell,
Alton Ellis,
Little Man,
The Real Kids,
Kerrie Biddell,
These Immortal Souls,
the Sonics,
Darondo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Porter Ricks,
Judy Mowatt,
Nils Olav,
Con Funk Shun,
Pantaleimon,
The Index,
the Association,
R.M.O.,
Robert Wyatt,
Jacques Brel,
Young Marble Giants,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Cure,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Move,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Gap Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eden Ahbez,
Kaleidoscope,
Gabor Szabo,
Ken Boothe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Agitation Free,
Scrapy,
Derrick May,
The American Breed,
David Axelrod,
Idris Muhammad,
Brick,
The Victims,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Germs,
Pere Ubu,
David McCallum,
Massinfluence,
Jeff Lynne,
Todd Terry,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Supertramp,
Neu!,
The Barracudas,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eric Copeland,
The Saints,
The Fire Engines,
Oblivians,
Faraquet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.