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 Nicaragua and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Columbus and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the sitar 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 Television Personalities to the grunge 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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Gil Scott Heron,
Derrick Morgan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Doors,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Last Poets,
Radio Birdman,
The Blues Magoos,
Warsaw,
48th St. Collective,
Franke,
Bootsy Collins,
The Smiths,
Blake Baxter,
Bluetip,
Pharoah Sanders,
Minnie Riperton,
CMW,
La Düsseldorf,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jacob Miller,
Eddi Front,
Stiv Bators,
The Leaves,
Scott Walker,
R.M.O.,
The Stooges,
Rufus Thomas,
Unrelated Segments,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Japan,
Idris Muhammad,
Deadbeat,
Moebius,
Deakin,
Prince Buster,
Max Romeo,
Wire,
David Axelrod,
FM Einheit,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed,
Andrew Hill,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Bar-Kays,
Marvin Gaye,
Hardrive,
Toni Rubio,
Donny Hathaway,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
A Certain Ratio,
Newcleus,
Circle Jerks,
Arcadia,
Quadrant,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.