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 Kuwait and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Radiopuhelimet to the crunk 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Ornette Coleman,
Joe Finger,
Ronnie Foster,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cal Tjader,
Derrick May,
Arcadia,
Kenny Larkin,
The Five Americans,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pole,
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sällskapet,
Joe Smooth,
John Foxx,
The Count Five,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Misunderstood,
Fugazi,
Darondo,
Eric Dolphy,
Lightning Bolt,
Nirvana,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Electric Prunes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Wolf Eyes,
Camberwell Now,
Chrome,
Dark Day,
Y Pants,
Joensuu 1685,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Names,
Mandrill,
Roger Hodgson,
Soft Cell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grandmaster Flash,
Theoretical Girls,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Boz Scaggs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Accadde A,
Rekid,
Metal Thangz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Idris Muhammad,
Loose Ends,
Skaos,
Minnie Riperton,
Sun Ra,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Radio Birdman,
Marvin Gaye,
Simply Red,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.