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 Samoa and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Throbbing Gristle to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Letta Mbulu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Angels of Light,
Eric Copeland,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chrome,
Accadde A,
Scientists,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Chris & Cosey,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bluetip,
Joe Finger,
Deadbeat,
Q65,
Freddie Wadling,
Buzzcocks,
LL Cool J,
The Sonics,
Howard Jones,
Eden Ahbez,
Jerry's Kids,
Kool Moe Dee,
Skriet,
Morten Harket,
Sarah Menescal,
Pantytec,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Yusef Lateef,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Colin Newman,
Wings,
Derrick May,
Zapp,
Donald Byrd,
Can,
Fluxion,
Spoonie Gee,
Cal Tjader,
Barbara Tucker,
Blossom Toes,
New Age Steppers,
Radiohead,
Joy Division,
Blake Baxter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
This Heat,
JFA,
Hoover,
Animal Collective,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tommy Roe,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Slits,
Depeche Mode,
Dennis Brown,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.