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 Benin and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bremen.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Jacques Brel 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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Eurythmics,
Arab on Radar,
Pole,
Jacob Miller,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Howard Jones,
The Wake,
Jeru the Damaja,
Glenn Branca,
The Young Rascals,
Cybotron,
T.S.O.L.,
Kevin Saunderson,
Yusef Lateef,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Moleskins,
Idris Muhammad,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Altered Images,
The Velvet Underground,
K-Klass,
The Happenings,
Sugar Minott,
The Cure,
Stereo Dub,
the Slits,
The Techniques,
Robert Görl,
Subhumans,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Urselle,
Bang On A Can,
Suburban Knight,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Move,
The Monochrome Set,
Inner City,
Rotary Connection,
Toni Rubio,
Hardrive,
Niagra,
Lightning Bolt,
Icehouse,
DNA,
Technova,
The Black Dice,
Excepter,
The Flesh Eaters,
Matthew Bourne,
Tres Demented,
Schoolly D,
The Smiths,
Alice Coltrane,
the Sonics,
Dennis Brown,
Magma,
The Index,
Lyres,
The Offenders,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.