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 Uruguay and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Tremeloes,
cv313,
Fatback Band,
The Associates,
Stereo Dub,
Grey Daturas,
Ultravox,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mission of Burma,
EPMD,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bill Wells,
The Happenings,
Cecil Taylor,
Todd Rundgren,
D'Angelo,
Kenny Larkin,
Minny Pops,
Jerry's Kids,
John Cale,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
FM Einheit,
Barbara Tucker,
The Monks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joy Division,
Scion,
Tommy Roe,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Angry Samoans,
Anthony Braxton,
Albert Ayler,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Amon Düül,
Jeff Lynne,
Yusef Lateef,
Delon & Dalcan,
Idris Muhammad,
Blossom Toes,
Technova,
Eli Mardock,
Essential Logic,
Roxette,
Public Enemy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Flag,
Deadbeat,
Juan Atkins,
The Wake,
Sun City Girls,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobby Byrd,
Boogie Down Productions,
Slave,
X-101,
June Days,
Fear,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Babytalk,
Fluxion,
Shoche,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.