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 New Zealand and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bologna.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the organ 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 Archie Shepp to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Parry Music,
Joe Finger,
Dorothy Ashby,
Q and Not U,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Max Romeo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Divine Comedy,
Television Personalities,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nik Kershaw,
Bauhaus,
Simply Red,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Slits,
Wally Richardson,
Pantytec,
Brand Nubian,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Angry Samoans,
David Bowie,
Thee Headcoats,
Gabor Szabo,
cv313,
Lakeside,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Maurizio,
Subhumans,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fela Kuti,
Pierre Henry,
Todd Rundgren,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Absolute Body Control,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Toasters,
Hot Snakes,
Cheater Slicks,
Neu!,
Girls At Our Best!,
Johnny Clarke,
The Evens,
Eric Dolphy,
Basic Channel,
Alphaville,
Eden Ahbez,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Cale,
Reuben Wilson,
The Cure,
Funky Four + One,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.