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 Zimbabwe and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Accadde A to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sparks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camberwell Now,
DNA,
FM Einheit,
Arab on Radar,
Organ,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Martian,
Talk Talk,
ABC,
Cymande,
Shuggie Otis,
MC5,
Archie Shepp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mars,
Jerry's Kids,
The Velvet Underground,
K-Klass,
Yusef Lateef,
The Saints,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pole,
JFA,
Carl Craig,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Theoretical Girls,
Letta Mbulu,
John Foxx,
Flash Fearless,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Black Dice,
The Electric Prunes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Black Pus,
Tomorrow,
A Certain Ratio,
Niagra,
Dark Day,
The Zeros,
Liliput,
Young Marble Giants,
Cybotron,
Aural Exciters,
MDC,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Monks,
The Red Krayola,
Unwound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rekid,
Idris Muhammad,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rufus Thomas,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
EPMD,
Fela Kuti,
Johnny Osbourne,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sun City Girls,
Fat Boys,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.