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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 Nirvana to the dance 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 The Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk 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 grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
China Crisis,
Qualms,
Carl Craig,
Harpers Bizarre,
Brick,
Stetsasonic,
Skaos,
Man Parrish,
Yazoo,
Inner City,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fad Gadget,
Television,
Jandek,
The Shadows of Knight,
Oneida,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rites of Spring,
Sugar Minott,
X-101,
Pharoah Sanders,
Flamin' Groovies,
Frankie Knuckles,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Warsaw,
Rotary Connection,
Icehouse,
D'Angelo,
UT,
Tomorrow,
Joey Negro,
Camberwell Now,
Flipper,
Girls At Our Best!,
Avey Tare,
Scientists,
Marshall Jefferson,
Todd Rundgren,
Tubeway Army,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Flash Fearless,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Technova,
Terry Callier,
Lightning Bolt,
Aloha Tigers,
Wasted Youth,
Nico,
Ossler,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Walker Brothers,
Dawn Penn,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Electric Prunes,
Shuggie Otis,
K-Klass,
Lalo Schifrin,
Skarface,
Grandmaster Flash,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.