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 Haiti and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Lower 48 to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
X-Ray Spex,
Henry Cow,
Neu!,
The Human League,
Soft Cell,
The Misunderstood,
Von Mondo,
The Neon Judgement,
Eddi Front,
Jimmy McGriff,
Main Source,
Inner City,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Young Rascals,
David McCallum,
Essential Logic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Yusef Lateef,
The Move,
Harmonia,
Warren Ellis,
The Angels of Light,
Dennis Brown,
Sarah Menescal,
Amon Düül,
The Toasters,
MDC,
David Axelrod,
Anthony Braxton,
The Star Department,
Q65,
The Beau Brummels,
Trumans Water,
Donny Hathaway,
Subhumans,
Soulsonic Force,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Blackbyrds,
Wire,
Altered Images,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fatback Band,
This Heat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cluster,
Underground Resistance,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ohio Players,
The Birthday Party,
the Fania All-Stars,
Organ,
Fugazi,
The Velvet Underground,
The Doobie Brothers,
Maleditus Sound,
The Remains,
Vladislav Delay,
The Doors,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.