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 Angola and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 Scan 7 to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
10cc,
Skriet,
Alison Limerick,
Procol Harum,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Shadows of Knight,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minnie Riperton,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Index,
Reagan Youth,
Slave,
The Monks,
The Misunderstood,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rakim,
Youth Brigade,
Subhumans,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Zero Boys,
New York Dolls,
Dark Day,
Steve Hackett,
The Moody Blues,
Newcleus,
The Pretty Things,
Piero Umiliani,
Rufus Thomas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Searchers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Harry Pussy,
Soulsonic Force,
Mad Mike,
Charles Mingus,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bill Wells,
Barry Ungar,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Beasts of Bourbon,
China Crisis,
Faraquet,
Fatback Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Sonics,
Joensuu 1685,
Alphaville,
Desert Stars,
Gang Green,
Jandek,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Black Dice,
Delta 5,
Al Stewart,
Audionom,
Bobbi Humphrey,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sandy B,
Kayak,
Nik Kershaw,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.