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 San Marino and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 808 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Rapeman,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Monolake,
The Mojo Men,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Barracudas,
The Black Dice,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kerri Chandler,
The Gories,
Bootsy Collins,
Aswad,
John Cale,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glenn Branca,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Janne Schatter,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Reagan Youth,
Fugazi,
Public Image Ltd.,
Easy Going,
Pantaleimon,
LL Cool J,
Malaria!,
Matthew Bourne,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Wolf Eyes,
The Smiths,
Byron Stingily,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
June of 44,
Marshall Jefferson,
Shoche,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Names,
Nas,
DNA,
The Standells,
Aloha Tigers,
Tres Demented,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Michelle Simonal,
Gang Green,
The Busters,
Bill Near,
Trumans Water,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fad Gadget,
Grauzone,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Neu!,
Deepchord,
Oblivians,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.