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 Belarus and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Eric Dolphy to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stiv Bators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Erykah Badu,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
China Crisis,
Roy Ayers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Blackbyrds,
The Gladiators,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter & Gordon,
The Cure,
The Star Department,
Das Ding,
The Pretty Things,
Absolute Body Control,
Scientists,
Newcleus,
E-Dancer,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sixth Finger,
Sister Nancy,
Model 500,
Joe Finger,
Fatback Band,
Janne Schatter,
Lalann,
Letta Mbulu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sexual Harrassment,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pierre Henry,
Lakeside,
Kayak,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Hardrive,
Lungfish,
Magazine,
Lucky Dragons,
The Gap Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barclay James Harvest,
Glenn Branca,
EPMD,
The Fugs,
Y Pants,
Tears for Fears,
Gang Green,
Eli Mardock,
The Monochrome Set,
Mandrill,
Sarah Menescal,
Mars,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Blossom Toes,
Echospace,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Saints,
Spandau Ballet,
John Coltrane,
Minutemen,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.