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 Syria and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jimmy McGriff to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Khruangbin,
Maurizio,
B.T. Express,
Henry Cow,
Barclay James Harvest,
Drive Like Jehu,
Peter & Gordon,
The Five Americans,
Chrome,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sällskapet,
Moss Icon,
Yellowson,
Toni Rubio,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Beau Brummels,
Isaac Hayes,
Steve Hackett,
The Standells,
Stiv Bators,
Joensuu 1685,
Gil Scott Heron,
Susan Cadogan,
Dave Gahan,
Sun City Girls,
Youth Brigade,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Moody Blues,
U.S. Maple,
Accadde A,
John Holt,
Make Up,
The Knickerbockers,
New Age Steppers,
Loose Ends,
Goldenarms,
Surgeon,
Funkadelic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Oblivians,
Rosa Yemen,
Camouflage,
Bang On A Can,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hashim,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dawn Penn,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
World's Most,
Quadrant,
Peter and Kerry,
Arab on Radar,
Duran Duran,
Blancmange,
Bobby Womack,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.