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 Singapore and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Calgary.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Gong to the techno 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Swell Maps,
Buzzcocks,
Erasure,
The Young Rascals,
The Invisible,
X-101,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Q65,
FM Einheit,
The Skatalites,
Sam Rivers,
The Beau Brummels,
Heaven 17,
Pole,
Nas,
Eric Dolphy,
Organ,
Symarip,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Busters,
Swans,
The Martian,
Silicon Teens,
Jeru the Damaja,
Cluster,
Franke,
Joyce Sims,
Cymande,
Fad Gadget,
Lou Reed,
Judy Mowatt,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
K-Klass,
Ronnie Foster,
48th St. Collective,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Adolescents,
Grauzone,
Drexciya,
Cheater Slicks,
The Names,
EPMD,
Sun Ra,
Laurel Aitken,
The Cramps,
The Golliwogs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The United States of America,
Funky Four + One,
Jandek,
The Divine Comedy,
Pussy Galore,
Bluetip,
Marmalade,
The Gap Band,
a-ha,
Second Layer,
Sarah Menescal,
Ohio Players,
Tomorrow,
Bobby Sherman,
Scan 7,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.