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 Mauritius and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cowsills to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Isaac Hayes,
Derrick Morgan,
Swans,
China Crisis,
Whodini,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Depeche Mode,
The Real Kids,
Simply Red,
Connie Case,
Sister Nancy,
Heaven 17,
Thompson Twins,
Jerry's Kids,
Warren Ellis,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Amon Düül II,
The Stooges,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Blackbyrds,
Idris Muhammad,
the Association,
Stereo Dub,
Johnny Clarke,
OOIOO,
The Trojans,
The J.B.'s,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dorothy Ashby,
Donald Byrd,
Bobby Womack,
Judy Mowatt,
Icehouse,
Pet Shop Boys,
LL Cool J,
the Swans,
The Neon Judgement,
Suicide,
Tommy Roe,
John Coltrane,
K-Klass,
Piero Umiliani,
Thee Headcoats,
New Order,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kenny Larkin,
The Zeros,
The Knickerbockers,
Fluxion,
The Gladiators,
Minnie Riperton,
CMW,
Pagans,
Japan,
The Leaves,
Glambeats Corp.,
Model 500,
Moebius,
Black Sheep,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.