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 Dominican Republic and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Lower 48,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Aaron Thompson,
The Happenings,
The Raincoats,
Black Sheep,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stereo Dub,
The Toasters,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Judy Mowatt,
The Searchers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Young Marble Giants,
Moss Icon,
the Human League,
Average White Band,
Fugazi,
The Cramps,
Ken Boothe,
Alice Coltrane,
Simply Red,
Michelle Simonal,
PIL,
Trumans Water,
Stetsasonic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jacques Brel,
Aural Exciters,
The Angels of Light,
Brand Nubian,
Unwound,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Icehouse,
Underground Resistance,
Deepchord,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Gladiators,
Y Pants,
R.M.O.,
Anthony Braxton,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bang On A Can,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ludus,
Archie Shepp,
Audionom,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Walker Brothers,
Blancmange,
Surgeon,
Erykah Badu,
The Monochrome Set,
Das Ding,
Prince Buster,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jandek,
The United States of America,
The Gun Club,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.