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 Lesotho and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 rhodes 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 Mary Jane Girls to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Malaria! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Idris Muhammad,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Von Mondo,
Robert Görl,
Isaac Hayes,
Lalann,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Livin' Joy,
Max Romeo,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ronan,
Japan,
James White and The Blacks,
The Moody Blues,
Crash Course in Science,
Gang Green,
Eli Mardock,
The Misunderstood,
Little Man,
In Retrospect,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Delta 5,
David Axelrod,
This Heat,
Yazoo,
The Dirtbombs,
Icehouse,
Amon Düül,
Peter and Kerry,
Fluxion,
Lyres,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jeff Lynne,
The Techniques,
Swans,
Oneida,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Newcleus,
Aural Exciters,
Ultravox,
Radiohead,
Marshall Jefferson,
Spandau Ballet,
Pantytec,
Mark Hollis,
Lower 48,
Parry Music,
Fat Boys,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jerry Gold Smith,
Goldenarms,
The Sonics,
Dave Gahan,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Fire Engines,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.