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 China and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Morten Harket to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Letta Mbulu,
Roxette,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pantaleimon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dead Boys,
Tom Boy,
Cameo,
Sound Behaviour,
John Cale,
The Cramps,
8 Eyed Spy,
Barry Ungar,
Massinfluence,
Bootsy Collins,
The Velvet Underground,
Adolescents,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fatback Band,
Qualms,
Graham Central Station,
Ten City,
Duran Duran,
Sällskapet,
Depeche Mode,
Infiniti,
The Mummies,
Animal Collective,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Wyatt,
Soft Cell,
Silicon Teens,
The Remains,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Visage,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jerry's Kids,
Interpol,
The J.B.'s,
cv313,
Anthony Braxton,
Flipper,
Cluster,
Icehouse,
Reagan Youth,
Rites of Spring,
Lebanon Hanover,
Camberwell Now,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Chris Corsano,
the Human League,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rotary Connection,
Neil Young,
Technova,
Altered Images,
Brothers Johnson,
The Monks,
Surgeon,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.