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 Togo and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
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 harpsichord 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 Drive Like Jehu to the jazz 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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Roger Hodgson,
The Mummies,
10cc,
Lucky Dragons,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Derrick Morgan,
Pierre Henry,
Man Parrish,
D'Angelo,
John Lydon,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Velvet Underground,
Throbbing Gristle,
Funky Four + One,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Black Flag,
Procol Harum,
The Vogues,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
kango's stein massive,
World's Most,
Desert Stars,
The Fugs,
Wally Richardson,
JFA,
Section 25,
Bill Near,
Matthew Bourne,
Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
Simply Red,
Kurtis Blow,
Ice-T,
The Modern Lovers,
The Fuzztones,
Piero Umiliani,
The Grass Roots,
Little Man,
Freddie Wadling,
Chrome,
Blossom Toes,
The Skatalites,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scan 7,
Sun City Girls,
Reuben Wilson,
Public Enemy,
Idris Muhammad,
the Slits,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Associates,
Average White Band,
Liliput,
EPMD,
China Crisis,
The Motions,
Marine Girls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.