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 Mali and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Tokyo.
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 rhodes 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 Don Cherry to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Stooges,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Quadrant,
Blossom Toes,
Blake Baxter,
New Age Steppers,
Symarip,
Pulsallama,
the Fania All-Stars,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Golliwogs,
David McCallum,
Crooked Eye,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marvin Gaye,
Mission of Burma,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rekid,
The Birthday Party,
Deadbeat,
Jeff Mills,
Darondo,
The Offenders,
Andrew Hill,
James White and The Blacks,
Excepter,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Terry Callier,
T.S.O.L.,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nils Olav,
Godley & Creme,
CMW,
Adolescents,
Yazoo,
Alison Limerick,
Radiohead,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Prince Buster,
KRS-One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
E-Dancer,
Flash Fearless,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Man Parrish,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Roger Hodgson,
Magma,
Bootsy Collins,
the Sonics,
The Grass Roots,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Swans,
Nik Kershaw,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Shadows of Knight,
Robert Görl,
The Star Department,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Isaac Hayes,
The Real Kids,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.