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 Italy and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lower 48 to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Yaz,
Funkadelic,
Man Parrish,
Tommy Roe,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Reagan Youth,
Lungfish,
The Index,
Bob Dylan,
Marvin Gaye,
Scientists,
Intrusion,
Traffic Nightmare,
Byron Stingily,
Sugar Minott,
Altered Images,
The Skatalites,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The American Breed,
John Lydon,
48th St. Collective,
Essential Logic,
The Doors,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ten City,
The New Christs,
Anthony Braxton,
Jeru the Damaja,
Q and Not U,
8 Eyed Spy,
Accadde A,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grauzone,
Slick Rick,
Bobby Byrd,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Idris Muhammad,
Prince Buster,
Kool Moe Dee,
Brand Nubian,
Easy Going,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crispian St. Peters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kerri Chandler,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Count Five,
Bobby Sherman,
Ludus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Unrelated Segments,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Sonics,
Grey Daturas,
Eli Mardock,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.