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 Russia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
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 clarinet 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 The Happenings to the funk 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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Junior Murvin,
June of 44,
B.T. Express,
10cc,
Pet Shop Boys,
Judy Mowatt,
The Busters,
Boz Scaggs,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Anthony Braxton,
Das Ding,
Roxy Music,
Minny Pops,
AZ,
Flipper,
Clear Light,
Echospace,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Royal Trux,
The Motions,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
ABBA,
Circle Jerks,
Hasil Adkins,
China Crisis,
Little Man,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lalann,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eurythmics,
Warren Ellis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Underground Resistance,
The Gories,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heaven 17,
Erasure,
The Wake,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nas,
Cecil Taylor,
Boogie Down Productions,
Audionom,
These Immortal Souls,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Godley & Creme,
Mary Jane Girls,
Duran Duran,
Tom Boy,
Scion,
Arthur Verocai,
Gil Scott Heron,
Dennis Brown,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Brand Nubian,
Oblivians,
Fad Gadget,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.