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 Lebanon and from Seoul.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Main Source to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donald Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Maleditus Sound,
Wire,
Arcadia,
Todd Rundgren,
The Modern Lovers,
Kayak,
Japan,
The Slackers,
Infiniti,
Henry Cow,
The Offenders,
Stereo Dub,
Scratch Acid,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Public Enemy,
Joensuu 1685,
Harpers Bizarre,
Robert Hood,
Man Eating Sloth,
Audionom,
Godley & Creme,
Nirvana,
Hoover,
AZ,
Khruangbin,
Sällskapet,
Danielle Patucci,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Blues Magoos,
Accadde A,
Bill Near,
Archie Shepp,
The Dirtbombs,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Walker Brothers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tomorrow,
The Martian,
Barry Ungar,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Quadrant,
Ronnie Foster,
Zapp,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Depeche Mode,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arthur Verocai,
Fatback Band,
The Residents,
Aswad,
Terrestrial Tones,
Skarface,
The Mojo Men,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Standells,
Sister Nancy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Foxx,
Blancmange,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Metal Thangz,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.