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 Philippines and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the electroclash 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Association,
Tomorrow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
U.S. Maple,
Sixth Finger,
The Fire Engines,
Peter & Gordon,
Fluxion,
Kool Moe Dee,
Alton Ellis,
The Index,
The Pretty Things,
Niagra,
Jacob Miller,
Todd Rundgren,
Ultra Naté,
Neil Young,
The Gap Band,
Livin' Joy,
Main Source,
Newcleus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sonic Youth,
Spoonie Gee,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Hoover,
48th St. Collective,
The Doors,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cecil Taylor,
Chris Corsano,
Con Funk Shun,
PIL,
John Foxx,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Isaac Hayes,
Von Mondo,
The Angels of Light,
Nik Kershaw,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Remains,
The Leaves,
LL Cool J,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Basic Channel,
Adolescents,
The Motions,
the Slits,
Sex Pistols,
Ten City,
Black Moon,
Khruangbin,
Cameo,
Accadde A,
June Days,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Barbara Tucker,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Byron Stingily,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.