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 Chile and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 Bobby Byrd to the punk 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
Das Ding,
The Dave Clark Five,
Barbara Tucker,
Eli Mardock,
The Stooges,
Tres Demented,
Brick,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gang Green,
Sound Behaviour,
Ken Boothe,
Terry Callier,
Archie Shepp,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brand Nubian,
Michelle Simonal,
Bob Dylan,
Technova,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Visage,
Tommy Roe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Soft Cell,
Buzzcocks,
Wolf Eyes,
Khruangbin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Electric Prunes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Wings,
The Grass Roots,
Quantec,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Peter & Gordon,
Todd Terry,
June Days,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fad Gadget,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wasted Youth,
Kerri Chandler,
Grey Daturas,
Aural Exciters,
Barclay James Harvest,
Hashim,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Guru Guru,
Josef K,
Wire,
The Motions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yazoo,
Cecil Taylor,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Accadde A,
Sugar Minott,
Kenny Larkin,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.