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 Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes 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 Zapp to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
The Sound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Funkadelic,
Minny Pops,
L. Decosne,
Sonny Sharrock,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fear,
Mo-Dettes,
Television Personalities,
Warsaw,
Jesper Dahlback,
Masters at Work,
Saccharine Trust,
Q and Not U,
Fela Kuti,
Magma,
Hot Snakes,
Susan Cadogan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Monochrome Set,
a-ha,
Robert Görl,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Isaac Hayes,
Gong,
Thompson Twins,
Section 25,
Scion,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dual Sessions,
The Victims,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sun City Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Graham Central Station,
Monolake,
Peter and Kerry,
The Moleskins,
F. McDonald,
The Fall,
Electric Prunes,
Swans,
Porter Ricks,
Althea and Donna,
Neil Young,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pantytec,
Zapp,
Joey Negro,
The Count Five,
The Gories,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.