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 Belarus and from Toronto.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Josef K to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Searchers. All the underground hits.
All Sad Lovers and Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Fuzztones,
Faraquet,
Rites of Spring,
Half Japanese,
Dual Sessions,
Danielle Patucci,
the Sonics,
Make Up,
Mandrill,
The Offenders,
The Slits,
The Gap Band,
Ituana,
The Gladiators,
Flash Fearless,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mark Hollis,
The Human League,
Ken Boothe,
Minny Pops,
The American Breed,
Khruangbin,
The Wake,
Archie Shepp,
Nico,
Joey Negro,
John Holt,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joe Finger,
The Misunderstood,
Con Funk Shun,
Mr. Review,
Mission of Burma,
The Trojans,
David McCallum,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Moody Blues,
The Black Dice,
Scrapy,
Harry Pussy,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Minutemen,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Stooges,
The Moleskins,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sarah Menescal,
The Slackers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Youth Brigade,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Neon Judgement,
Judy Mowatt,
Sixth Finger,
John Coltrane,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.