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 Spain and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 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 the Bar-Kays to the disco 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Duran Duran,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Human League,
E-Dancer,
Silicon Teens,
Eurythmics,
Colin Newman,
Neil Young,
OOIOO,
The Birthday Party,
Soul II Soul,
Eli Mardock,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Doors,
Cymande,
Todd Rundgren,
Anakelly,
Brand Nubian,
Lou Reed,
Deakin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Görl,
Popol Vuh,
Mandrill,
Joy Division,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Evens,
The Detroit Cobras,
Isaac Hayes,
Skriet,
Marmalade,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Monks,
John Holt,
The Associates,
the Sonics,
Aloha Tigers,
Bush Tetras,
Fad Gadget,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Q65,
John Foxx,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Human League,
Los Fastidios,
Swell Maps,
The Index,
the Normal,
The Dead C,
The Searchers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Icehouse,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gang Green,
Sex Pistols,
It's A Beautiful Day,
R.M.O.,
Junior Murvin,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.