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 Sweden and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the grime 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Moby Grape,
The Fugs,
Skaos,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pierre Henry,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Skriet,
Scratch Acid,
Reagan Youth,
The Fire Engines,
Arthur Verocai,
Ludus,
Hot Snakes,
Ten City,
DJ Style,
Mandrill,
Morten Harket,
Qualms,
June Days,
Groovy Waters,
Newcleus,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grey Daturas,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The New Christs,
The Invisible,
Main Source,
Sun City Girls,
Erykah Badu,
Reuben Wilson,
Marmalade,
The Seeds,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Anakelly,
The Black Dice,
X-101,
The Buckinghams,
Nils Olav,
Minnie Riperton,
Sonic Youth,
Kayak,
Gregory Isaacs,
New Order,
Harpers Bizarre,
Faust,
The Skatalites,
Television Personalities,
The Monks,
Talk Talk,
Jimmy McGriff,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barry Ungar,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
L. Decosne,
Gabor Szabo,
Brass Construction,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Depeche Mode,
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow.
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.