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 Comoros and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Delon & Dalcan to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Al Stewart,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Searchers,
Arcadia,
Jesper Dahlback,
Youth Brigade,
Freddie Wadling,
cv313,
Yaz,
the Soft Cell,
Laurel Aitken,
Bad Manners,
Bluetip,
One Last Wish,
Nirvana,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Black Sheep,
The Doobie Brothers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Vainqueur,
Pole,
Japan,
Deakin,
Drive Like Jehu,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Five Americans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Alphaville,
Lalann,
Fela Kuti,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Johnny Osbourne,
Duran Duran,
The Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Supertramp,
The Remains,
The Associates,
The Misunderstood,
Inner City,
The Standells,
Smog,
Minutemen,
Stiv Bators,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Outsiders,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kerrie Biddell,
Barbara Tucker,
T.S.O.L.,
The Tremeloes,
Y Pants,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Aural Exciters,
Guru Guru,
Throbbing Gristle,
48th St. Collective,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Brothers Johnson,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.