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 New Zealand and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bremen.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ 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 Aloha Tigers to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig 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 a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
Bluetip,
Rod Modell,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Godley & Creme,
Minnie Riperton,
Talk Talk,
Henry Cow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Isaac Hayes,
Tommy Roe,
Marine Girls,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Suburban Knight,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sun City Girls,
Brass Construction,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Anakelly,
Make Up,
Nas,
Traffic Nightmare,
Whodini,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jeru the Damaja,
Underground Resistance,
Q65,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Second Layer,
The Seeds,
David Axelrod,
Siglo XX,
Mission of Burma,
Joe Finger,
The Gun Club,
AZ,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlback,
CMW,
Lindisfarne,
One Last Wish,
The Cure,
New York Dolls,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Funky Four + One,
Can,
Infiniti,
Roger Hodgson,
Hardrive,
Echospace,
The Toasters,
Ohio Players,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sparks,
LL Cool J,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mr. Review,
The Misunderstood,
Kaleidoscope,
Stockholm Monsters,
Donny Hathaway,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.