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 Zambia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Amon Düül II to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Isaac Hayes,
The Searchers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Judy Mowatt,
Chris Corsano,
Lucky Dragons,
Youth Brigade,
Black Sheep,
Amon Düül II,
Basic Channel,
Young Marble Giants,
X-102,
Deepchord,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Tomorrow,
Eden Ahbez,
Neu!,
The Cowsills,
The Alarm Clocks,
Hot Snakes,
Warsaw,
The Slits,
Agent Orange,
The Moleskins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Motions,
Bluetip,
a-ha,
Jerry's Kids,
The Five Americans,
Symarip,
R.M.O.,
The Fire Engines,
Crime,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Tremeloes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Angry Samoans,
Mission of Burma,
Shoche,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sun Ra,
Gichy Dan,
Kas Product,
Wasted Youth,
LL Cool J,
Unwound,
Fluxion,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eurythmics,
Don Cherry,
Sarah Menescal,
Sound Behaviour,
Rekid,
Boz Scaggs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Altered Images,
Barrington Levy,
Eric Copeland,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.