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 Cuba and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fuzztones to the jazz 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Glambeats Corp.,
Desert Stars,
Joyce Sims,
Robert Görl,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cheater Slicks,
Das Ding,
Franke,
Deadbeat,
KRS-One,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobby Womack,
Sound Behaviour,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Christie,
Alton Ellis,
The Sonics,
the Bar-Kays,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Wire,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Anakelly,
Robert Wyatt,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Count Five,
David Bowie,
David McCallum,
Main Source,
Bootsy Collins,
Agitation Free,
Chrome,
Gastr Del Sol,
Japan,
Marmalade,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Selecter,
Rakim,
Crime,
Reuben Wilson,
Throbbing Gristle,
Symarip,
Shuggie Otis,
Crispy Ambulance,
Blancmange,
Model 500,
Mark Hollis,
Cecil Taylor,
Schoolly D,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Cowsills,
Iggy Pop,
Avey Tare,
The Detroit Cobras,
Amon Düül,
The Wake,
Babytalk,
Los Fastidios,
Peter & Gordon,
Hashim,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.