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 Montenegro and from Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pagans to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Ultravox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hardrive,
Altered Images,
A Certain Ratio,
Marmalade,
Donny Hathaway,
Country Teasers,
Howard Jones,
New Age Steppers,
The Mummies,
Organ,
Gang Green,
Marine Girls,
Electric Prunes,
Aaron Thompson,
Josef K,
Yazoo,
DJ Sneak,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tears for Fears,
The Toasters,
Crash Course in Science,
Bush Tetras,
Bad Manners,
Bobby Sherman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rufus Thomas,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rakim,
Roy Ayers,
cv313,
The Fortunes,
Underground Resistance,
Scott Walker,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ultra Naté,
Janne Schatter,
Dual Sessions,
Bill Wells,
Robert Hood,
Pantytec,
the Human League,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
David Axelrod,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Deepchord,
Girls At Our Best!,
Crooked Eye,
June Days,
Sex Pistols,
Rapeman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Radio Birdman,
Jandek,
Pierre Henry,
Quantec,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.