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 Burkina and from London.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 synthesizer 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 Royal Family And The Poor to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Divine Comedy,
Anakelly,
Funky Four + One,
The Neon Judgement,
the Bar-Kays,
Oneida,
Unrelated Segments,
Girls At Our Best!,
June Days,
Intrusion,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Monks,
Scion,
Sound Behaviour,
Ossler,
Minny Pops,
The Cure,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Misunderstood,
Royal Trux,
AZ,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bobby Womack,
U.S. Maple,
Tommy Roe,
Jimmy McGriff,
Matthew Bourne,
Piero Umiliani,
Lucky Dragons,
Public Image Ltd.,
Neil Young,
X-Ray Spex,
Kayak,
Thee Headcoats,
Talk Talk,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Bill Near,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nation of Ulysses,
Theoretical Girls,
Quando Quango,
Bob Dylan,
Barbara Tucker,
Sister Nancy,
The Young Rascals,
Yusef Lateef,
Junior Murvin,
Steve Hackett,
Simply Red,
DJ Sneak,
Stetsasonic,
Silicon Teens,
Carl Craig,
Eric B and Rakim,
Section 25,
Animal Collective,
Fad Gadget,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap 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.