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 Finland and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fear,
Kerri Chandler,
Gastr Del Sol,
FM Einheit,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Zapp,
Thompson Twins,
Infiniti,
Visage,
Gregory Isaacs,
Royal Trux,
John Coltrane,
Warren Ellis,
La Düsseldorf,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pagans,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Dead C,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Robert Hood,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Half Japanese,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bush Tetras,
Mo-Dettes,
Barbara Tucker,
PIL,
Jacob Miller,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Aural Exciters,
Gil Scott Heron,
Alton Ellis,
Depeche Mode,
Drexciya,
Country Teasers,
ABC,
Sun Ra,
Yaz,
Joey Negro,
Radio Birdman,
Motorama,
Shuggie Otis,
the Association,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sandy B,
One Last Wish,
KRS-One,
Barry Ungar,
The Black Dice,
The Searchers,
Derrick Morgan,
Parry Music,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Slave,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
In Retrospect,
The United States of America,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Simply Red,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.