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 Qatar and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bob Dylan to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 New Christs. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
The J.B.'s,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Donald Byrd,
8 Eyed Spy,
Minutemen,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
D'Angelo,
The Velvet Underground,
Kurtis Blow,
Moebius,
Visage,
Skarface,
Outsiders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soulsonic Force,
Sun Ra,
Barrington Levy,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
China Crisis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jandek,
Arcadia,
Ultravox,
Ohio Players,
Cameo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Yaz,
E-Dancer,
Mandrill,
Shoche,
Camouflage,
Avey Tare,
Technova,
The Angels of Light,
Pierre Henry,
MDC,
Juan Atkins,
Radiohead,
David Axelrod,
The Grass Roots,
Albert Ayler,
Sister Nancy,
The Moody Blues,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Michelle Simonal,
Porter Ricks,
The Doors,
The Gladiators,
Ken Boothe,
The Slackers,
R.M.O.,
Youth Brigade,
Connie Case,
Hoover,
Amon Düül,
Joey Negro,
Tim Buckley,
The Happenings,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
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.