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 Slovakia 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Monks to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glambeats Corp. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Soft Cell,
Groovy Waters,
Jeff Lynne,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cybotron,
Joensuu 1685,
Average White Band,
The Wake,
Crash Course in Science,
Boz Scaggs,
The Alarm Clocks,
Television,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barrington Levy,
Minny Pops,
Bush Tetras,
Roxy Music,
Grey Daturas,
Don Cherry,
Scott Walker,
Vladislav Delay,
H. Thieme,
CMW,
Kerri Chandler,
Connie Case,
Sonny Sharrock,
Henry Cow,
The Cure,
Ponytail,
Tommy Roe,
Brass Construction,
Stiv Bators,
Joey Negro,
Arthur Verocai,
Scrapy,
Tim Buckley,
The Trojans,
Bluetip,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobby Sherman,
Metal Thangz,
The Toasters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yaz,
Lightning Bolt,
Maurizio,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Idris Muhammad,
Lalann,
Faraquet,
Kurtis Blow,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nico,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Monochrome Set,
Niagra,
K-Klass,
Jacques Brel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.