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 Somalia and from Beijing.
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 Columbus and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Deakin 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
48th St. Collective,
R.M.O.,
These Immortal Souls,
Cecil Taylor,
Colin Newman,
Dead Boys,
Altered Images,
Stereo Dub,
The Durutti Column,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Mandrill,
UT,
Roy Ayers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
New Age Steppers,
Mad Mike,
Barbara Tucker,
Kaleidoscope,
China Crisis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deepchord,
Yusef Lateef,
Joyce Sims,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Heaven 17,
Dark Day,
Erasure,
Howard Jones,
MC5,
The Moody Blues,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Crash Course in Science,
The Pretty Things,
The Gories,
The Techniques,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bobbi Humphrey,
New Order,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Aural Exciters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Whodini,
Harmonia,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eddi Front,
Sarah Menescal,
Gichy Dan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
John Lydon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Slave,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
La Düsseldorf,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.