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 China and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sixth Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lakeside,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fad Gadget,
Fatback Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Funkadelic,
The Residents,
Roger Hodgson,
New Order,
Hardrive,
Moby Grape,
Little Man,
Groovy Waters,
Eddi Front,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Searchers,
X-Ray Spex,
Sonny Sharrock,
Crash Course in Science,
Davy DMX,
The United States of America,
Sam Rivers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Donald Byrd,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
James White and The Blacks,
The Knickerbockers,
The Doors,
Erykah Badu,
China Crisis,
Avey Tare,
Bush Tetras,
the Germs,
the Normal,
Warren Ellis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mars,
Anthony Braxton,
Tres Demented,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
K-Klass,
Cecil Taylor,
Mission of Burma,
Roxette,
Mo-Dettes,
Matthew Bourne,
Danielle Patucci,
FM Einheit,
The Tremeloes,
Joy Division,
Idris Muhammad,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Blossom Toes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Piero Umiliani,
Subhumans,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.