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 Australia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Grandmaster Flash to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Massinfluence,
Organ,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fad Gadget,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Schoolly D,
48th St. Collective,
Bush Tetras,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gang of Four,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pagans,
Make Up,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Mummies,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pantaleimon,
Unwound,
Grey Daturas,
Jeff Mills,
Spoonie Gee,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
X-Ray Spex,
Ken Boothe,
Pere Ubu,
Pet Shop Boys,
Donald Byrd,
Groovy Waters,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sister Nancy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Stiv Bators,
8 Eyed Spy,
Arthur Verocai,
The Divine Comedy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lungfish,
Susan Cadogan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Grauzone,
Jacob Miller,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Swell Maps,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Depeche Mode,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Fraelich,
Steve Hackett,
A Certain Ratio,
Fela Kuti,
New Age Steppers,
E-Dancer,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
EPMD,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Soulsonic Force,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.