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 China and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Donald Fagen 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 Wally Richardson to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
The Monochrome Set,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mr. Review,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Oblivians,
Main Source,
Bluetip,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soul II Soul,
Jandek,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter and Kerry,
Qualms,
The Five Americans,
Sarah Menescal,
E-Dancer,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Thee Headcoats,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Camberwell Now,
Pantaleimon,
The Fugs,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tears for Fears,
The Doors,
Max Romeo,
Altered Images,
Flash Fearless,
Echospace,
Archie Shepp,
X-101,
Avey Tare,
Crispian St. Peters,
Slick Rick,
Surgeon,
Quantec,
Man Eating Sloth,
Erasure,
Silicon Teens,
Japan,
Todd Terry,
Brand Nubian,
Amon Düül II,
Marc Almond,
10cc,
Motorama,
Sällskapet,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Flipper,
Clear Light,
Slave,
Gerry Rafferty,
Delta 5,
Lindisfarne,
Kayak,
Ultravox,
the Germs,
Mission of Burma,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.