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 Mauritania and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Dead C to the crunk 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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
Urselle,
Barbara Tucker,
Dave Gahan,
Massinfluence,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Crime,
Pantytec,
Robert Wyatt,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ludus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pole,
U.S. Maple,
The Monochrome Set,
Arthur Verocai,
48th St. Collective,
10cc,
Black Sheep,
JFA,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
L. Decosne,
The Gun Club,
Surgeon,
The Smoke,
Boredoms,
Tim Buckley,
Audionom,
Man Parrish,
New Order,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joyce Sims,
Guru Guru,
Danielle Patucci,
Chris & Cosey,
Gabor Szabo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Standells,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Liliput,
Crash Course in Science,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Five Americans,
Siglo XX,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Letta Mbulu,
Ultimate Spinach,
Loose Ends,
Warren Ellis,
The Dead C,
Ice-T,
Bobby Womack,
Kas Product,
Sound Behaviour,
The Selecter,
The Smiths,
Swell Maps,
MC5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.