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 Australia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron 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 Japan to the rock 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All 10cc 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 rock 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 harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Marmalade,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
Flash Fearless,
Stockholm Monsters,
U.S. Maple,
Gang Green,
Throbbing Gristle,
Drexciya,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scrapy,
Rod Modell,
X-101,
CMW,
Grey Daturas,
Camouflage,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jeff Lynne,
Marshall Jefferson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Niagra,
kango's stein massive,
Subhumans,
Crash Course in Science,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Coltrane,
Ponytail,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Shuggie Otis,
Jerry's Kids,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Radiohead,
Pylon,
Cal Tjader,
Organ,
Blake Baxter,
Average White Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ralphi Rosario,
David Axelrod,
Sugar Minott,
Main Source,
June of 44,
The Angels of Light,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Sound,
Pierre Henry,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ohio Players,
Harmonia,
Public Image Ltd.,
Black Moon,
the Sonics,
Icehouse,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Zeros,
Malaria!,
the Slits,
Guru Guru,
10cc,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.