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 Tanzania and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Deakin to the disco 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Hasil Adkins,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fluxion,
Howard Jones,
Wings,
Little Man,
The Last Poets,
Excepter,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roger Hodgson,
Echospace,
Gastr Del Sol,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pharoah Sanders,
James White and The Blacks,
The Remains,
Joy Division,
the Human League,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Vainqueur,
Nas,
Grandmaster Flash,
Al Stewart,
Average White Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Aaron Thompson,
Marine Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Black Sheep,
The Angels of Light,
The Wake,
Mr. Review,
Godley & Creme,
Bobby Byrd,
PIL,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Josef K,
Second Layer,
The Victims,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Stooges,
Au Pairs,
Nils Olav,
A Certain Ratio,
The Searchers,
Liliput,
Con Funk Shun,
Scan 7,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ultravox,
The Grass Roots,
kango's stein massive,
The Barracudas,
China Crisis,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.