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 Mali and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manchester.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Blackbyrds to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Funkadelic,
Loose Ends,
Slave,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kenny Larkin,
Roxette,
The Zeros,
Reagan Youth,
Aswad,
The Smoke,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Albert Ayler,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eden Ahbez,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Maleditus Sound,
Main Source,
Dead Boys,
Kevin Saunderson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Reuben Wilson,
Brick,
the Human League,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Amazonics,
Arab on Radar,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-102,
EPMD,
Lalo Schifrin,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gang Green,
Pharoah Sanders,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Pus,
Hoover,
Bauhaus,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Henry Cow,
Aaron Thompson,
Cecil Taylor,
Mandrill,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mark Hollis,
Unrelated Segments,
Marvin Gaye,
Nick Fraelich,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Skaos,
Minutemen,
The Barracudas,
The Smiths,
Camouflage,
Moebius,
Jandek,
Soul Sonic Force,
DJ Style,
The Pop Group,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Soft Machine,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.