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 Poland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ultravox to the punk 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The J.B.'s record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Bronski Beat,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Divine Comedy,
Bad Manners,
the Soft Cell,
Andrew Hill,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Minnie Riperton,
David McCallum,
Goldenarms,
Piero Umiliani,
Echospace,
Babytalk,
Fela Kuti,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joyce Sims,
DJ Style,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Smog,
Alton Ellis,
The Stooges,
Bang On A Can,
the Bar-Kays,
World's Most,
The Remains,
Ice-T,
Junior Murvin,
Make Up,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tommy Roe,
E-Dancer,
Lucky Dragons,
Dawn Penn,
Reuben Wilson,
Michelle Simonal,
Chrome,
Byron Stingily,
Quadrant,
Little Man,
Symarip,
Ultravox,
Drexciya,
The Tremeloes,
The Buckinghams,
Ornette Coleman,
Erasure,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Livin' Joy,
the Swans,
Ronnie Foster,
Hoover,
Ossler,
Main Source,
the Normal,
Blancmange,
Anthony Braxton,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.