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 Austria and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 a-ha to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pole record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Grey Daturas,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Chris Corsano,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Iggy Pop,
Kas Product,
Black Bananas,
Jimmy McGriff,
Organ,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Godley & Creme,
Groovy Waters,
Joyce Sims,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stiv Bators,
The Associates,
The Flesh Eaters,
Max Romeo,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Erykah Badu,
The Dead C,
Flamin' Groovies,
Glenn Branca,
Bootsy Collins,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kerri Chandler,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Divine Comedy,
Neil Young,
Bush Tetras,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Mills,
Electric Prunes,
F. McDonald,
Tim Buckley,
Joe Smooth,
The Litter,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Remains,
Swans,
Nico,
Darondo,
MDC,
Basic Channel,
Brand Nubian,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
H. Thieme,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Fatback Band,
Rod Modell,
DNA,
Banda Bassotti,
Buzzcocks,
The Five Americans,
Gichy Dan,
The Detroit Cobras,
Letta Mbulu,
Donny Hathaway,
Althea and Donna,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.