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 Jordan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the funk 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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Grauzone,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bronski Beat,
The United States of America,
Sister Nancy,
Delta 5,
John Coltrane,
Marmalade,
The Standells,
Bluetip,
Stetsasonic,
Livin' Joy,
Barbara Tucker,
Alton Ellis,
Eric Dolphy,
The Pretty Things,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Yellowson,
the Germs,
The Gap Band,
Deakin,
Avey Tare,
Pantaleimon,
Erykah Badu,
Visage,
Ronan,
The Beau Brummels,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Fortunes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Faraquet,
Juan Atkins,
Niagra,
AZ,
Dave Gahan,
Radiohead,
Shoche,
Mandrill,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Litter,
Wire,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hashim,
Yazoo,
Amon Düül,
Flash Fearless,
The Modern Lovers,
Joy Division,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Matthew Halsall,
Dark Day,
Fear,
The Cure,
Bad Manners,
Moby Grape,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.