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 Haiti and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gang of Four to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
AZ,
Accadde A,
The Five Americans,
China Crisis,
Pagans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
EPMD,
Sarah Menescal,
The Walker Brothers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Section 25,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Boz Scaggs,
Make Up,
Erasure,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Human League,
Moss Icon,
Mantronix,
Rites of Spring,
Curtis Mayfield,
MC5,
Anthony Braxton,
Slave,
The Vogues,
Vladislav Delay,
The Fortunes,
Piero Umiliani,
Index,
The Selecter,
The Blackbyrds,
Whodini,
Reuben Wilson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Letta Mbulu,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Albert Ayler,
Cybotron,
X-Ray Spex,
Sound Behaviour,
Charles Mingus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Faust,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nation of Ulysses,
Hardrive,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Hashim,
Guru Guru,
Gang Green,
the Fania All-Stars,
Vainqueur,
Rekid,
The Count Five,
ABC,
Roxy Music,
Inner City,
Gastr Del Sol,
Matthew Bourne,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.