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 Eritrea and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Carl Craig to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Stiv Bators,
Trumans Water,
The Cure,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Johnny Osbourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pussy Galore,
John Lydon,
Depeche Mode,
Glenn Branca,
the Fania All-Stars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Delta 5,
Donald Byrd,
Prince Buster,
X-102,
New Order,
The Walker Brothers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Faust,
Pagans,
Nik Kershaw,
The Motions,
Skaos,
Ponytail,
Shoche,
Piero Umiliani,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Doobie Brothers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gong,
Maleditus Sound,
Zapp,
Sarah Menescal,
These Immortal Souls,
Marc Almond,
Half Japanese,
Freddie Wadling,
The New Christs,
Andrew Hill,
The Dave Clark Five,
Au Pairs,
Wings,
Oneida,
The Neon Judgement,
The Alarm Clocks,
Blake Baxter,
the Slits,
Anakelly,
Ituana,
Organ,
Soul II Soul,
Eden Ahbez,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rotary Connection,
Brass Construction,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
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.