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 Iran and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare 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 Isaac Hayes to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Bill Wells,
Eric Dolphy,
The Kinks,
Reagan Youth,
MDC,
L. Decosne,
Mars,
Swell Maps,
Cluster,
Peter and Kerry,
EPMD,
Scott Walker,
Echospace,
Donald Byrd,
The Misunderstood,
Severed Heads,
David Axelrod,
Lower 48,
Crime,
China Crisis,
Schoolly D,
Mr. Review,
Youth Brigade,
Graham Central Station,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Quando Quango,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Standells,
Hashim,
The Black Dice,
The Zeros,
The Saints,
Piero Umiliani,
Underground Resistance,
Icehouse,
A Certain Ratio,
Joe Finger,
Panda Bear,
kango's stein massive,
Jandek,
Chris & Cosey,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soul II Soul,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Radiopuhelimet,
Prince Buster,
Negative Approach,
Smog,
Khruangbin,
Monks,
Sam Rivers,
The Doors,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Cramps,
the Germs,
The Move,
Chris Corsano,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.