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 Congo and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ornette Coleman to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Simply Red,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flipper,
Al Stewart,
Accadde A,
Shuggie Otis,
Technova,
Gichy Dan,
Cecil Taylor,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grandmaster Flash,
Laurel Aitken,
Lakeside,
Lou Christie,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Fugs,
Banda Bassotti,
Moss Icon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ultra Naté,
Clear Light,
Henry Cow,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scientists,
Boredoms,
Ronnie Foster,
Lindisfarne,
The Vogues,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Todd Terry,
Sam Rivers,
Lower 48,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Half Japanese,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nico,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Guru Guru,
Wasted Youth,
The Slackers,
Yusef Lateef,
Bronski Beat,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
ABC,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Echospace,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Black Dice,
Soulsonic Force,
Suburban Knight,
OOIOO,
Prince Buster,
The Gories,
Deepchord,
Peter and Kerry,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.