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 Slovakia 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Roxy Music to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Q and Not U,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Happenings,
The Gladiators,
Visage,
Depeche Mode,
Vladislav Delay,
Hoover,
Eurythmics,
Joey Negro,
Piero Umiliani,
The Fuzztones,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Funkadelic,
Negative Approach,
Judy Mowatt,
Wire,
Young Marble Giants,
Lungfish,
Eden Ahbez,
Alice Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pantytec,
Neil Young,
Alison Limerick,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Duran Duran,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lightning Bolt,
Blake Baxter,
Peter and Kerry,
the Slits,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sällskapet,
Gil Scott Heron,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Anthony Braxton,
Tomorrow,
The Fugs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Panda Bear,
Hot Snakes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Saints,
Fela Kuti,
Kurtis Blow,
Buzzcocks,
Dennis Brown,
The Buckinghams,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brass Construction,
Camberwell Now,
Yazoo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Roger Hodgson,
Gerry Rafferty,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.