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 Costa Rica and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Barrington Levy to the jazz 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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Scan 7,
Albert Ayler,
Trumans Water,
Flipper,
Jerry's Kids,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Chrome,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sexual Harrassment,
L. Decosne,
The Searchers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bob Dylan,
The Moleskins,
China Crisis,
Boogie Down Productions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
10cc,
Television,
Josef K,
Shuggie Otis,
Rufus Thomas,
John Lydon,
Kurtis Blow,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Adolescents,
Tears for Fears,
Kas Product,
Arab on Radar,
a-ha,
The Cowsills,
Janne Schatter,
Lalo Schifrin,
Urselle,
the Germs,
Kayak,
Spandau Ballet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dead Boys,
Procol Harum,
Tommy Roe,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Modern Lovers,
Moebius,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Joe Finger,
Thee Headcoats,
Alison Limerick,
Basic Channel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
MDC,
The Real Kids,
Boz Scaggs,
June Days,
Average White Band,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Gap Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.