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 Slovakia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sällskapet,
The Cramps,
Icehouse,
Tommy Roe,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rod Modell,
Symarip,
The Count Five,
Slick Rick,
Eden Ahbez,
The Real Kids,
Amon Düül II,
Derrick Morgan,
Carl Craig,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Toasters,
The Last Poets,
Roy Ayers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gang Green,
The Grass Roots,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Delta 5,
Talk Talk,
Duran Duran,
Sun Ra,
Cameo,
Pagans,
Anthony Braxton,
Panda Bear,
Whodini,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
New Order,
Kevin Saunderson,
ABBA,
Khruangbin,
Index,
PIL,
Byron Stingily,
Gichy Dan,
Pulsallama,
Basic Channel,
Ludus,
Neu!,
The Young Rascals,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Divine Comedy,
Chris Corsano,
Thompson Twins,
Boredoms,
Susan Cadogan,
Soft Cell,
ABC,
Joe Finger,
Black Moon,
Lalann,
Ponytail,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.