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 Lebanon and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Amon Düül II to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Alphaville,
Simply Red,
The Victims,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Todd Rundgren,
Eden Ahbez,
Rhythm & Sound,
World's Most,
Lungfish,
The Doors,
Skaos,
The Neon Judgement,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scott Walker,
Television,
Blake Baxter,
Audionom,
Skarface,
Janne Schatter,
ABC,
Metal Thangz,
The Slackers,
Bad Manners,
Desert Stars,
cv313,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eddi Front,
Scion,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Moody Blues,
Terry Callier,
Nik Kershaw,
Byron Stingily,
Khruangbin,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sunsets and Hearts,
OOIOO,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Tres Demented,
Sonic Youth,
Sex Pistols,
Theoretical Girls,
Kool Moe Dee,
Underground Resistance,
The Pop Group,
Delta 5,
Man Parrish,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ludus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Velvet Underground,
Barclay James Harvest,
Massinfluence,
Loose Ends,
The Dirtbombs,
Deakin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dual Sessions,
Stockholm Monsters,
Arcadia,
T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex.
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.