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 Jamaica and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the crunk 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Subhumans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eddi Front,
Half Japanese,
Bill Near,
The Young Rascals,
Wings,
Morten Harket,
Harpers Bizarre,
Magma,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ronnie Foster,
The Mojo Men,
Con Funk Shun,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gang Green,
Sandy B,
Al Stewart,
Bobby Womack,
Skriet,
Bootsy Collins,
Thee Headcoats,
D'Angelo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dual Sessions,
Soft Machine,
The Fuzztones,
Los Fastidios,
Sex Pistols,
Joe Finger,
Yellowson,
Kayak,
Eli Mardock,
Albert Ayler,
Von Mondo,
Niagra,
the Human League,
Bad Manners,
Chris Corsano,
Dead Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Carl Craig,
The J.B.'s,
Radiopuhelimet,
KRS-One,
Roy Ayers,
The Gladiators,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pere Ubu,
Freddie Wadling,
Lungfish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Robert Hood,
a-ha,
Aloha Tigers,
Smog,
The Misunderstood,
Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon.
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.