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 Netherlands and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro 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 Thee Headcoats to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Reuben Wilson,
Mo-Dettes,
Duran Duran,
Cal Tjader,
Agent Orange,
Flipper,
Dual Sessions,
Gang of Four,
The New Christs,
Babytalk,
The Pretty Things,
The Five Americans,
The Invisible,
Byron Stingily,
Pantytec,
The Sound,
Hoover,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
John Cale,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ludus,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nas,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Janne Schatter,
Harmonia,
The Fire Engines,
Piero Umiliani,
Lakeside,
Wally Richardson,
Funky Four + One,
10cc,
Stiv Bators,
Mad Mike,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Amon Düül II,
Banda Bassotti,
Gang Gang Dance,
Thee Headcoats,
Eve St. Jones,
The Alarm Clocks,
Boredoms,
Toni Rubio,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
T. Rex,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Drexciya,
Von Mondo,
Leonard Cohen,
Kaleidoscope,
Sparks,
Barbara Tucker,
Spoonie Gee,
Sun Ra,
Bronski Beat,
The Real Kids,
The Toasters,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.