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 Ireland and from Winnipeg.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Joyce Sims,
LL Cool J,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cybotron,
Letta Mbulu,
Johnny Clarke,
Sonic Youth,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roxette,
10cc,
Crispian St. Peters,
Erykah Badu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Patti Smith,
Tubeway Army,
Matthew Bourne,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fela Kuti,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang Starr,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Hardrive,
The Techniques,
A Certain Ratio,
MDC,
Das Ding,
Banda Bassotti,
Moby Grape,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Gun Club,
Don Cherry,
Mars,
Radiohead,
Agitation Free,
Flash Fearless,
Monks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marine Girls,
Al Stewart,
F. McDonald,
Yaz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Warren Ellis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Godley & Creme,
Agent Orange,
Los Fastidios,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Little Man,
Parry Music,
Au Pairs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Excepter,
John Coltrane,
X-Ray Spex,
Henry Cow,
The Misunderstood,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.