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 Czech Republic and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 chamberlin 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 Peter and Kerry to the rock 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Junior Murvin,
The Music Machine,
Ituana,
Traffic Nightmare,
Zero Boys,
AZ,
Colin Newman,
Roy Ayers,
The Pretty Things,
Public Enemy,
Stiv Bators,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
cv313,
Funkadelic,
Jawbox,
Mo-Dettes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Basic Channel,
Gang Starr,
Steve Hackett,
Warren Ellis,
Michelle Simonal,
Lou Reed,
Heaven 17,
Talk Talk,
Ornette Coleman,
Con Funk Shun,
Althea and Donna,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Saccharine Trust,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Saints,
Lower 48,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Graham Central Station,
New York Dolls,
Moss Icon,
DJ Style,
Amon Düül,
Minny Pops,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Happenings,
Lindisfarne,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Associates,
Yaz,
Tom Boy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fad Gadget,
Bill Near,
Hasil Adkins,
Dennis Brown,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.