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 Kazakhstan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Section 25 to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Niagra,
Sound Behaviour,
Graham Central Station,
The Slits,
The Gap Band,
Essential Logic,
Popol Vuh,
Yusef Lateef,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Blackbyrds,
Fat Boys,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lyres,
Pharoah Sanders,
Arcadia,
Can,
Junior Murvin,
Alice Coltrane,
The Searchers,
Minor Threat,
Siglo XX,
Archie Shepp,
The Shadows of Knight,
Infiniti,
FM Einheit,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nick Fraelich,
Kurtis Blow,
Moby Grape,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bootsy Collins,
Chris & Cosey,
Oblivians,
Charles Mingus,
Sun Ra,
Buzzcocks,
Spoonie Gee,
Lungfish,
Khruangbin,
Roger Hodgson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lou Reed,
Average White Band,
Outsiders,
John Holt,
Juan Atkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lower 48,
Judy Mowatt,
Matthew Bourne,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gichy Dan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Zeros,
Amazonics,
Sällskapet,
The Music Machine,
Mars,
Magma,
Rosa Yemen,
Cluster,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.