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 Namibia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 Jakarta and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 T.S.O.L. to the jazz 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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Flash Fearless,
Archie Shepp,
Fear,
Tomorrow,
Maleditus Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Y Pants,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pharoah Sanders,
Unwound,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Circle Jerks,
Visage,
Prince Buster,
Chris & Cosey,
Stereo Dub,
Wally Richardson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Barracudas,
The American Breed,
The Zeros,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Black Moon,
Rakim,
cv313,
Khruangbin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Neil Young,
Kurtis Blow,
A Flock of Seagulls,
10cc,
Soft Machine,
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
X-102,
the Normal,
Severed Heads,
Roger Hodgson,
Kayak,
Main Source,
Danielle Patucci,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dave Gahan,
One Last Wish,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Yellowson,
Joyce Sims,
Minnie Riperton,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rites of Spring,
Second Layer,
Q and Not U,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Surgeon,
Harry Pussy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Spoonie Gee,
Brothers Johnson,
The Electric Prunes,
Scion,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.