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 Cuba and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Livin' Joy to the rap 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gian Franco Pienzio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Ultimate Spinach,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Maurizio,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kerri Chandler,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sixth Finger,
Freddie Wadling,
The Young Rascals,
Silicon Teens,
Rakim,
Hasil Adkins,
Black Pus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
A Certain Ratio,
Chris Corsano,
Barry Ungar,
Jandek,
Spoonie Gee,
Funkadelic,
D'Angelo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rapeman,
These Immortal Souls,
T.S.O.L.,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Laurel Aitken,
Mark Hollis,
Fear,
Al Stewart,
K-Klass,
Fad Gadget,
48th St. Collective,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fela Kuti,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rotary Connection,
Depeche Mode,
Severed Heads,
Wasted Youth,
Unwound,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boz Scaggs,
Q and Not U,
Symarip,
The Stooges,
The Gun Club,
Fat Boys,
Angry Samoans,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dennis Brown,
Schoolly D,
Letta Mbulu,
The Standells,
Skriet,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.