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 El Salvador and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 cv313 to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
The Kinks,
Tears for Fears,
Letta Mbulu,
Ituana,
The Last Poets,
The New Christs,
Erykah Badu,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Suicide,
R.M.O.,
Deepchord,
Technova,
The Smiths,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Todd Terry,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Slackers,
Nico,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mandrill,
Prince Buster,
Kenny Larkin,
the Association,
Cal Tjader,
Ten City,
Deakin,
The Misunderstood,
Sugar Minott,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dorothy Ashby,
Agent Orange,
Wings,
Half Japanese,
Subhumans,
The Fire Engines,
Q and Not U,
Joe Smooth,
Guru Guru,
Maleditus Sound,
These Immortal Souls,
Procol Harum,
Sixth Finger,
Black Bananas,
Tres Demented,
Rod Modell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
H. Thieme,
Laurel Aitken,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Inner City,
Eric Copeland,
Gerry Rafferty,
Quadrant,
Cameo,
Connie Case,
Goldenarms,
The Beau Brummels,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Skatalites,
Unrelated Segments,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.