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 Oman and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 chamberlin 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 Massinfluence to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Eddi Front,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sun Ra,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jandek,
Shuggie Otis,
Terry Callier,
Isaac Hayes,
X-102,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Donald Byrd,
Magma,
The Moleskins,
Neil Young,
Howard Jones,
EPMD,
Bobby Byrd,
Technova,
Harmonia,
Tears for Fears,
Scientists,
Mo-Dettes,
The Searchers,
Blancmange,
Gastr Del Sol,
Yusef Lateef,
LL Cool J,
The Standells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gichy Dan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
H. Thieme,
The Real Kids,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Grass Roots,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Erykah Badu,
Absolute Body Control,
PIL,
Rosa Yemen,
Bobby Sherman,
Crooked Eye,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ossler,
Ponytail,
Funky Four + One,
U.S. Maple,
Guru Guru,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sight & Sound,
The Red Krayola,
Pulsallama,
Max Romeo,
Angry Samoans,
Rekid,
Mantronix,
Donny Hathaway,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.