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 Macedonia 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 synthesizer 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 Brass Construction to the rap 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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Underground Resistance,
The Zeros,
Terry Callier,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Organ,
Sixth Finger,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wasted Youth,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Moleskins,
Skarface,
Eddi Front,
Connie Case,
Excepter,
Intrusion,
AZ,
Soulsonic Force,
Neu!,
The American Breed,
The Dead C,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joey Negro,
Echospace,
Gang of Four,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Monolake,
X-Ray Spex,
Fat Boys,
Joy Division,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Foxx,
The Monks,
Bobby Sherman,
Quando Quango,
the Human League,
Slave,
Severed Heads,
Monks,
MDC,
Bill Near,
Arcadia,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Techniques,
Funkadelic,
Rapeman,
Henry Cow,
Mad Mike,
Warren Ellis,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Matthew Halsall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Pretty Things,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.