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 Marshall Islands and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tehran.
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 oboe 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 The Litter to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
Visage,
Eden Ahbez,
Monolake,
The Gap Band,
Circle Jerks,
Man Parrish,
Lyres,
The Black Dice,
Amon Düül,
The Litter,
Lalann,
Funkadelic,
Metal Thangz,
Electric Prunes,
Quantec,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Germs,
Kerri Chandler,
Desert Stars,
kango's stein massive,
Eve St. Jones,
Mo-Dettes,
Pylon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Wally Richardson,
Joensuu 1685,
Bush Tetras,
Liliput,
Whodini,
Reuben Wilson,
The Monochrome Set,
UT,
The Fuzztones,
Royal Trux,
Nirvana,
Newcleus,
Little Man,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ultimate Spinach,
Roger Hodgson,
Delta 5,
Ralphi Rosario,
Zapp,
Wasted Youth,
Siglo XX,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
8 Eyed Spy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marshall Jefferson,
Brass Construction,
Oneida,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Sheep,
The Residents,
Boz Scaggs,
Index,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Inner City,
Althea and Donna,
Rites of Spring,
Matthew Bourne,
The Trojans,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.