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 Solomon Islands and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Taipei.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Dirtbombs. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Leonard Cohen,
The Selecter,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Offenders,
The Red Krayola,
Talk Talk,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Magazine,
Robert Görl,
China Crisis,
The Raincoats,
The Sound,
Loose Ends,
Drive Like Jehu,
JFA,
One Last Wish,
The Music Machine,
Junior Murvin,
Main Source,
Sex Pistols,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Dead C,
Pierre Henry,
Pylon,
Nik Kershaw,
Quantec,
Marcia Griffiths,
Toni Rubio,
Black Sheep,
Camouflage,
The Gladiators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marine Girls,
Kenny Larkin,
The Angels of Light,
Sound Behaviour,
Man Eating Sloth,
Pantytec,
New Order,
Flash Fearless,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Robert Wyatt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Derrick Morgan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
New Age Steppers,
Simply Red,
Chris & Cosey,
ABC,
The Stooges,
Roy Ayers,
Organ,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kas Product,
Quando Quango,
Maleditus Sound,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Marshall Jefferson,
Mary Jane Girls,
DNA,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.