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 Venezuela and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the sitar 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Johnny Clarke,
Scion,
Scratch Acid,
Lou Christie,
Bad Manners,
Nas,
Boogie Down Productions,
Underground Resistance,
Essential Logic,
K-Klass,
Vainqueur,
The United States of America,
Black Sheep,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ossler,
Yaz,
Bill Near,
Fad Gadget,
Derrick May,
Hoover,
Half Japanese,
Josef K,
Simply Red,
Joy Division,
Brick,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Idris Muhammad,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Harry Pussy,
The Skatalites,
10cc,
Eddi Front,
Ultravox,
Gregory Isaacs,
Mantronix,
Leonard Cohen,
Archie Shepp,
Tomorrow,
Amon Düül,
The New Christs,
Eric B and Rakim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
MDC,
Parry Music,
World's Most,
Lakeside,
These Immortal Souls,
Eve St. Jones,
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The American Breed,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Human League,
Funkadelic,
The Monochrome Set,
The Litter,
Scan 7,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.