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 Lebanon and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Gladiators to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Alton Ellis,
The J.B.'s,
Soul II Soul,
Hot Snakes,
Bill Near,
Sun City Girls,
The Alarm Clocks,
UT,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Terrestrial Tones,
D'Angelo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Thompson Twins,
June Days,
The Red Krayola,
The Invisible,
JFA,
Peter and Kerry,
the Normal,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kenny Larkin,
the Bar-Kays,
Silicon Teens,
Chris & Cosey,
Jesper Dahlback,
One Last Wish,
Lalann,
Kool Moe Dee,
Todd Terry,
The Fire Engines,
La Düsseldorf,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Franke,
Unrelated Segments,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gregory Isaacs,
Tears for Fears,
Fatback Band,
The Stooges,
Skarface,
Eddi Front,
Brand Nubian,
John Coltrane,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Theoretical Girls,
Stetsasonic,
Morten Harket,
The Monks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Clear Light,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Erykah Badu,
Minnie Riperton,
Fela Kuti,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Names,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.