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 Monaco and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar 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 Brass Construction to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Liliput,
Maurizio,
The Blackbyrds,
Frankie Knuckles,
Erykah Badu,
Kerri Chandler,
Sam Rivers,
The Gun Club,
T.S.O.L.,
Mark Hollis,
Prince Buster,
Accadde A,
The Sound,
KRS-One,
Freddie Wadling,
Lakeside,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Piero Umiliani,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
June Days,
The Slackers,
Cecil Taylor,
The Associates,
JFA,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roy Ayers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eve St. Jones,
Fugazi,
Altered Images,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Green,
LL Cool J,
Althea and Donna,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fire Engines,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Banda Bassotti,
The American Breed,
Jawbox,
Crispian St. Peters,
Television Personalities,
The Red Krayola,
Junior Murvin,
Eli Mardock,
Soul II Soul,
The Raincoats,
Pole,
Derrick Morgan,
Shoche,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Deepchord,
Minnie Riperton,
John Holt,
Maleditus Sound,
H. Thieme,
Japan,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.