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 Bolivia and from London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 spring reverb 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 The Young Rascals to the dance 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily 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?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pere Ubu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Josef K,
Royal Trux,
Tubeway Army,
The Cure,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camberwell Now,
Sugar Minott,
Tres Demented,
Bang On A Can,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sound Behaviour,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Electric Prunes,
Panda Bear,
The Buckinghams,
Alice Coltrane,
Eric Copeland,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ken Boothe,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jeru the Damaja,
Marine Girls,
Swans,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Litter,
Nico,
Eric Dolphy,
Scan 7,
Bobby Womack,
Marmalade,
Main Source,
Matthew Bourne,
Sonic Youth,
Unrelated Segments,
Dennis Brown,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Pop Group,
The Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Audionom,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Judy Mowatt,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Minny Pops,
Fat Boys,
Ohio Players,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Davy DMX,
James White and The Blacks,
Yaz,
L. Decosne,
Arcadia,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Oblivians,
Ice-T,
Shuggie Otis,
The Five Americans,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.