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 Portugal and from Paris.
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 Lyon and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the disco 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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Bang On A Can,
Make Up,
Drexciya,
Tres Demented,
David Axelrod,
Lower 48,
Saccharine Trust,
Joe Smooth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marcia Griffiths,
Swans,
Country Teasers,
Moebius,
Donny Hathaway,
Joe Finger,
The Monochrome Set,
the Swans,
The Mojo Men,
Rotary Connection,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Scott Walker,
Stetsasonic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sight & Sound,
Barry Ungar,
JFA,
L. Decosne,
Dawn Penn,
Kayak,
Howard Jones,
Chrome,
Stereo Dub,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sparks,
Ronan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
David Bowie,
the Human League,
Eve St. Jones,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rites of Spring,
Dark Day,
Niagra,
John Foxx,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Moody Blues,
Blossom Toes,
Scrapy,
The Buckinghams,
Delon & Dalcan,
Glenn Branca,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fuzztones,
Danielle Patucci,
Roy Ayers,
The Dirtbombs,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.