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 Denmark and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Donny Hathaway 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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Fad Gadget,
JFA,
Lalann,
The Sonics,
Sun Ra,
Cheater Slicks,
Sarah Menescal,
Erykah Badu,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Grauzone,
Ludus,
Easy Going,
Underground Resistance,
LL Cool J,
The Pretty Things,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sun City Girls,
Iggy Pop,
Gong,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Carl Craig,
Susan Cadogan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gang Gang Dance,
Urselle,
Q and Not U,
D'Angelo,
Bob Dylan,
Scan 7,
David McCallum,
Basic Channel,
The Kinks,
Silicon Teens,
Fort Wilson Riot,
A Certain Ratio,
The American Breed,
Slick Rick,
Sugar Minott,
Stiv Bators,
Lou Reed,
Black Sheep,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Japan,
World's Most,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Moody Blues,
The Gories,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Knickerbockers,
The Golliwogs,
The Residents,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Darondo,
Black Bananas,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eurythmics,
Pylon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Busters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.