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 Poland and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 spring reverb 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 Moss Icon to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Skriet,
Das Ding,
Negative Approach,
Barrington Levy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Derrick Morgan,
U.S. Maple,
The Five Americans,
Archie Shepp,
Scan 7,
Rites of Spring,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lalann,
Quando Quango,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mission of Burma,
Technova,
Brand Nubian,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Don Cherry,
The Zeros,
Smog,
Vainqueur,
Oblivians,
Half Japanese,
The Tremeloes,
Peter & Gordon,
Ice-T,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang Starr,
Second Layer,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bronski Beat,
Dorothy Ashby,
Chrome,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eric Dolphy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Detroit Cobras,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nas,
Joensuu 1685,
Pierre Henry,
Young Marble Giants,
Kerri Chandler,
Deepchord,
Delta 5,
Arab on Radar,
Audionom,
Steve Hackett,
Mary Jane Girls,
Joey Negro,
Subhumans,
Warren Ellis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
cv313,
Heaven 17,
Oneida,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.