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 Nepal and from Tokyo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 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 Chris Corsano. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Ten City,
Susan Cadogan,
Leonard Cohen,
Echospace,
Tubeway Army,
The Neon Judgement,
Spoonie Gee,
The Tremeloes,
Duran Duran,
The Seeds,
T.S.O.L.,
Radio Birdman,
The Searchers,
Scion,
Cecil Taylor,
Public Image Ltd.,
Funky Four + One,
Scan 7,
Isaac Hayes,
Quando Quango,
Flamin' Groovies,
Parry Music,
Iggy Pop,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Godley & Creme,
The Doors,
Quantec,
The Raincoats,
The Count Five,
Young Marble Giants,
Mars,
Joensuu 1685,
UT,
Pylon,
Scott Walker,
Terrestrial Tones,
Saccharine Trust,
Audionom,
Grandmaster Flash,
Unwound,
Black Moon,
The Sound,
Motorama,
The Grass Roots,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scratch Acid,
Visage,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Offenders,
Man Parrish,
Silicon Teens,
Junior Murvin,
John Coltrane,
Spandau Ballet,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fatback Band,
Joe Finger,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.