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 Ghana and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Edmonton and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Brand Nubian to the crunk 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 The Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Knickerbockers,
Grauzone,
The Techniques,
The Human League,
Black Pus,
Cheater Slicks,
Suicide,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Birthday Party,
Section 25,
The Cure,
Banda Bassotti,
Todd Terry,
Bush Tetras,
Dawn Penn,
Model 500,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Barracudas,
Motorama,
Aswad,
The Standells,
Schoolly D,
Underground Resistance,
Absolute Body Control,
Ralphi Rosario,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hasil Adkins,
Monolake,
Boredoms,
Yazoo,
Delta 5,
These Immortal Souls,
T.S.O.L.,
Symarip,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Skarface,
Siglo XX,
the Slits,
The Skatalites,
Second Layer,
Carl Craig,
X-101,
Archie Shepp,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Reagan Youth,
The Star Department,
ABBA,
Rakim,
Yusef Lateef,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ludus,
ABC,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerri Chandler,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.