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 Venezuela and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron 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 Drexciya to the disco 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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Q65,
Connie Case,
Ronan,
E-Dancer,
Tomorrow,
Flash Fearless,
Bluetip,
DJ Sneak,
Swans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Liliput,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Move,
Circle Jerks,
The Gories,
Guru Guru,
K-Klass,
Bobby Womack,
Danielle Patucci,
the Germs,
Oblivians,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Arab on Radar,
Godley & Creme,
the Association,
Monolake,
Thompson Twins,
Bobby Sherman,
Nico,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marine Girls,
Mantronix,
Rakim,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eurythmics,
The Real Kids,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Human League,
The Selecter,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hoover,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Clear Light,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Cure,
Don Cherry,
UT,
The Leaves,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Grauzone,
The Young Rascals,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
U.S. Maple,
Sight & Sound,
H. Thieme,
In Retrospect,
Reagan Youth,
Roy Ayers,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.