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 Gabon and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 snare 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 Sight & Sound to the funk 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 The Smiths. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
The Grass Roots,
Judy Mowatt,
Visage,
Organ,
LL Cool J,
Saccharine Trust,
Laurel Aitken,
Gil Scott Heron,
Severed Heads,
Sight & Sound,
Bauhaus,
The Associates,
Gregory Isaacs,
Siglo XX,
The Modern Lovers,
DJ Sneak,
Man Parrish,
The Motions,
cv313,
The Leaves,
Nas,
The Zeros,
Panda Bear,
Thee Headcoats,
Animal Collective,
Delta 5,
Derrick Morgan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cecil Taylor,
Black Bananas,
Urselle,
Fugazi,
Mission of Burma,
Patti Smith,
The Gories,
David Axelrod,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Parry Music,
U.S. Maple,
Eve St. Jones,
Kevin Saunderson,
Duran Duran,
Lower 48,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Guru Guru,
Rod Modell,
Cameo,
Amon Düül,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sällskapet,
Joe Finger,
Tom Boy,
Underground Resistance,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Minny Pops,
D'Angelo,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.