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 Colombia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Young Rascals to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Erasure,
MDC,
Patti Smith,
June Days,
Scratch Acid,
Faraquet,
Ronan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bush Tetras,
Arab on Radar,
Monks,
The Sound,
Sugar Minott,
Hoover,
Nik Kershaw,
Man Parrish,
The Leaves,
Magazine,
Organ,
Brothers Johnson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pierre Henry,
Essential Logic,
Yellowson,
Severed Heads,
Roxy Music,
The Raincoats,
Pulsallama,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Erykah Badu,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Soft Cell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Delta 5,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Moody Blues,
Bizarre Inc.,
Soft Machine,
Prince Buster,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deadbeat,
The Birthday Party,
Surgeon,
Main Source,
Kas Product,
Sällskapet,
Skriet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boredoms,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fad Gadget,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bauhaus,
The Remains,
Anthony Braxton,
The Cure,
Crooked Eye,
Tres Demented,
The Buckinghams,
Mark Hollis,
Fugazi,
Little Man,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.