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 Ivory Coast and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Harmonia to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
The Electric Prunes,
Ohio Players,
John Holt,
Lungfish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
FM Einheit,
Boogie Down Productions,
Little Man,
Grauzone,
Soul Sonic Force,
Davy DMX,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Zero Boys,
Bad Manners,
Skriet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Sheep,
Liliput,
Anthony Braxton,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gichy Dan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Massinfluence,
Au Pairs,
Isaac Hayes,
Radio Birdman,
Soft Machine,
The Happenings,
Fear,
Whodini,
Henry Cow,
La Düsseldorf,
Kerri Chandler,
Delta 5,
The Smoke,
Unrelated Segments,
The New Christs,
Chris & Cosey,
Wally Richardson,
Lou Reed,
The Zeros,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
R.M.O.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Judy Mowatt,
David Axelrod,
The Move,
Mark Hollis,
U.S. Maple,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Kinks,
Make Up,
Johnny Osbourne,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Negative Approach,
Dennis Brown,
Gabor Szabo,
Procol Harum,
The Gories,
Marc Almond,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics.
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.