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 Solomon Islands and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Supertramp to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Skaos,
Joyce Sims,
John Cale,
Q and Not U,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Black Bananas,
Fear,
The Cramps,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lungfish,
Jacob Miller,
Bush Tetras,
Wolf Eyes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fuzztones,
The Star Department,
Roxette,
Drexciya,
Josef K,
Nico,
Radiohead,
The Real Kids,
Babytalk,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Technova,
Organ,
Yellowson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Offenders,
Japan,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultravox,
Adolescents,
Basic Channel,
Avey Tare,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sarah Menescal,
Amon Düül II,
Swell Maps,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scientists,
Jeff Mills,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marshall Jefferson,
Aural Exciters,
Rotary Connection,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Quadrant,
Heaven 17,
New Order,
Althea and Donna,
Spoonie Gee,
X-101,
Liliput,
Roger Hodgson,
Animal Collective,
a-ha,
Minnie Riperton,
kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive.
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.