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 Syria and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Donny Hathaway to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
The Gladiators,
Andrew Hill,
Gong,
The Young Rascals,
Electric Prunes,
Bauhaus,
Tomorrow,
Minny Pops,
The Grass Roots,
Public Enemy,
Rufus Thomas,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sällskapet,
Sixth Finger,
Flash Fearless,
Wire,
Yaz,
David Axelrod,
New Order,
Lungfish,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Skatalites,
The Smiths,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joey Negro,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Tremeloes,
Khruangbin,
Massinfluence,
Lightning Bolt,
China Crisis,
Maleditus Sound,
Al Stewart,
Faust,
Schoolly D,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Unwound,
The Birthday Party,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lucky Dragons,
Albert Ayler,
The Neon Judgement,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lindisfarne,
Crash Course in Science,
Davy DMX,
Stetsasonic,
Cal Tjader,
Fluxion,
Altered Images,
Slave,
Byron Stingily,
Graham Central Station,
The Raincoats,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.