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 Netherlands and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ 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 Laurel Aitken to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Residents. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Whodini,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alice Coltrane,
Delon & Dalcan,
FM Einheit,
Schoolly D,
The Modern Lovers,
Saccharine Trust,
Delta 5,
The Cure,
Gong,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Flash Fearless,
Idris Muhammad,
Pylon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Matthew Halsall,
Angry Samoans,
The Offenders,
Negative Approach,
Sonic Youth,
Piero Umiliani,
The Fall,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Little Man,
Minor Threat,
Donny Hathaway,
Excepter,
Shuggie Otis,
Curtis Mayfield,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nas,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Aswad,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Divine Comedy,
Joe Smooth,
Make Up,
T.S.O.L.,
Soft Machine,
The Move,
A Certain Ratio,
Das Ding,
Bill Wells,
The Monks,
The Doobie Brothers,
Japan,
the Bar-Kays,
John Lydon,
MDC,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Funkadelic,
Silicon Teens,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Unwound,
Lalo Schifrin,
Circle Jerks,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aural Exciters,
Man Parrish,
Young Marble Giants,
Spoonie Gee,
June Days,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.