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 China and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
Charles Mingus,
Adolescents,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Trumans Water,
La Düsseldorf,
Johnny Osbourne,
Hasil Adkins,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Schoolly D,
The Raincoats,
The United States of America,
Rufus Thomas,
Roy Ayers,
Eric Dolphy,
Matthew Halsall,
The Toasters,
Television,
Kaleidoscope,
Yaz,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bad Manners,
The Count Five,
Althea and Donna,
Echospace,
Sparks,
Bang On A Can,
Sandy B,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Black Dice,
The Wake,
the Bar-Kays,
cv313,
Danielle Patucci,
Simply Red,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pharoah Sanders,
Young Marble Giants,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Y Pants,
Carl Craig,
Fad Gadget,
Outsiders,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Bananas,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Monochrome Set,
ABC,
Sonny Sharrock,
Slave,
Sound Behaviour,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tom Boy,
DJ Style,
Barry Ungar,
Dead Boys,
Juan Atkins,
Alton Ellis,
Lou Reed,
Moby Grape,
The Grass Roots,
Monks, Monks, Monks, Monks.
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.