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 Kyrgyzstan 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Public Image Ltd. to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Von Mondo,
Lakeside,
Fat Boys,
Arcadia,
Gang Starr,
Cecil Taylor,
Archie Shepp,
Funkadelic,
Bluetip,
Symarip,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sparks,
Johnny Clarke,
Kerri Chandler,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mr. Review,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cluster,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Walker Brothers,
Absolute Body Control,
Fluxion,
Eden Ahbez,
World's Most,
Jandek,
Livin' Joy,
Hot Snakes,
Sonny Sharrock,
the Germs,
Nik Kershaw,
Alton Ellis,
Ice-T,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Janne Schatter,
Amon Düül II,
Drive Like Jehu,
Moebius,
Glenn Branca,
Freddie Wadling,
Junior Murvin,
Amazonics,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ronnie Foster,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jacob Miller,
Schoolly D,
Donald Byrd,
The Gladiators,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Motions,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The American Breed,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mars,
The Mummies,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.