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 Somalia and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 David Bowie 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 Gap Band to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pere Ubu,
Dual Sessions,
Lee Hazlewood,
Delta 5,
David Axelrod,
Minnie Riperton,
Gregory Isaacs,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Residents,
Electric Prunes,
H. Thieme,
The Gun Club,
MC5,
Cluster,
Radio Birdman,
Joensuu 1685,
New Age Steppers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Youth Brigade,
Marc Almond,
Das Ding,
Model 500,
Quadrant,
The Fugs,
Qualms,
The Star Department,
Don Cherry,
Alton Ellis,
Sam Rivers,
The Remains,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Derrick Morgan,
Ten City,
Susan Cadogan,
Marcia Griffiths,
Chris Corsano,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lower 48,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joyce Sims,
Iggy Pop,
The Index,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Liliput,
The Young Rascals,
Can,
Charles Mingus,
The Angels of Light,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Velvet Underground,
Buzzcocks,
The Selecter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Moleskins,
Pharoah Sanders,
Second Layer,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.