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 Serbia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the grime 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Bill Near,
The Divine Comedy,
Kenny Larkin,
Niagra,
Kayak,
A Certain Ratio,
Scratch Acid,
Dennis Brown,
New Age Steppers,
Joy Division,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
kango's stein massive,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Echospace,
Josef K,
Anthony Braxton,
Ohio Players,
Japan,
Quando Quango,
Crime,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Alison Limerick,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gil Scott Heron,
Franke,
The Happenings,
The Gories,
Stockholm Monsters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joe Smooth,
Isaac Hayes,
The Grass Roots,
Cybotron,
Aural Exciters,
Talk Talk,
Carl Craig,
The Gladiators,
10cc,
Panda Bear,
Eric Copeland,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Derrick May,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Swans,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lakeside,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Albert Ayler,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Music Machine,
Letta Mbulu,
Quadrant,
Lalann,
Crash Course in Science,
Newcleus,
Harpers Bizarre,
Youth Brigade,
Todd Terry,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.