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 Spain and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Japan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Birthday Party,
The Litter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Knickerbockers,
Leonard Cohen,
Guru Guru,
Absolute Body Control,
The Names,
H. Thieme,
Danielle Patucci,
Intrusion,
Country Teasers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Skriet,
The Blackbyrds,
The Doobie Brothers,
Suicide,
The Offenders,
The Neon Judgement,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minor Threat,
Soul II Soul,
The Selecter,
Lalann,
Moebius,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Barbara Tucker,
Bobby Womack,
The Standells,
Idris Muhammad,
Reuben Wilson,
Parry Music,
Delta 5,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Drexciya,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bush Tetras,
Black Pus,
Godley & Creme,
Jeff Lynne,
Neu!,
Loose Ends,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mantronix,
the Slits,
Barrington Levy,
Oneida,
Duran Duran,
Von Mondo,
The Slackers,
Stiv Bators,
Pantytec,
Girls At Our Best!,
James White and The Blacks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
World's Most,
Johnny Clarke,
Patti Smith,
Khruangbin,
Circle Jerks,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.