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 Luxembourg and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Donald Fagen 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 Ralphi Rosario to the funk 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Massinfluence,
Juan Atkins,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Happenings,
EPMD,
Pierre Henry,
Johnny Osbourne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fad Gadget,
The Divine Comedy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Danielle Patucci,
John Coltrane,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sex Pistols,
Spandau Ballet,
Arab on Radar,
Darondo,
Yusef Lateef,
The United States of America,
Japan,
Parry Music,
The Cowsills,
Neu!,
Bill Near,
DJ Sneak,
The Mummies,
X-102,
Echospace,
kango's stein massive,
Kevin Saunderson,
James White and The Blacks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
KRS-One,
Half Japanese,
Derrick May,
Easy Going,
Clear Light,
the Germs,
Organ,
Guru Guru,
Scrapy,
Livin' Joy,
the Swans,
Henry Cow,
The Doors,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crime,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bauhaus,
Altered Images,
Nas,
Lee Hazlewood,
Stetsasonic,
Grauzone,
Groovy Waters,
The Knickerbockers,
The Gladiators,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.