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 Japan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 organ 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 Q and Not U to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brothers Johnson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Ornette Coleman,
Whodini,
Reagan Youth,
Howard Jones,
Easy Going,
Arcadia,
The Wake,
The Sound,
Dennis Brown,
Japan,
Dual Sessions,
Motorama,
Warsaw,
Average White Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Peter & Gordon,
the Normal,
Eve St. Jones,
Niagra,
Au Pairs,
Davy DMX,
Max Romeo,
Accadde A,
Marvin Gaye,
The Music Machine,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Busters,
Vladislav Delay,
a-ha,
Albert Ayler,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Moleskins,
The Grass Roots,
Charles Mingus,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Main Source,
Lightning Bolt,
Crash Course in Science,
Graham Central Station,
Hot Snakes,
Cecil Taylor,
Fort Wilson Riot,
the Human League,
Qualms,
the Sonics,
The Beau Brummels,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Womack,
Newcleus,
Skaos,
Al Stewart,
Stetsasonic,
Aaron Thompson,
Wally Richardson,
Harry Pussy,
Oblivians,
Pere Ubu,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soul II Soul,
Subhumans,
Severed Heads,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.