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 Zambia and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Faust to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Country Teasers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Boredoms,
Brand Nubian,
The Saints,
Accadde A,
Crooked Eye,
Skarface,
Echospace,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
T.S.O.L.,
Cymande,
Freddie Wadling,
Crash Course in Science,
Minutemen,
48th St. Collective,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Steve Hackett,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Clear Light,
Chris & Cosey,
Jacob Miller,
John Holt,
Bauhaus,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Mummies,
The Raincoats,
Derrick May,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Black Pus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Trojans,
Electric Prunes,
Lucky Dragons,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Minnie Riperton,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Martian,
Lakeside,
David McCallum,
Schoolly D,
The Electric Prunes,
Panda Bear,
Man Parrish,
Faust,
FM Einheit,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ultra Naté,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Barry Ungar,
Eddi Front,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
B.T. Express,
The Real Kids,
Pantaleimon,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.