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 Guyana and from Beijing.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Hashim to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Jeff Lynne,
Rites of Spring,
Matthew Halsall,
Thompson Twins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Half Japanese,
Lalann,
Eve St. Jones,
a-ha,
Nils Olav,
Soul II Soul,
Chris Corsano,
Scrapy,
Porter Ricks,
Johnny Osbourne,
Massinfluence,
Sister Nancy,
48th St. Collective,
Vladislav Delay,
The Leaves,
Outsiders,
Davy DMX,
The Gories,
Black Sheep,
Boz Scaggs,
Eddi Front,
Connie Case,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sun Ra,
Circle Jerks,
The Red Krayola,
Eli Mardock,
Pet Shop Boys,
Kerrie Biddell,
John Coltrane,
The Fall,
Funkadelic,
Radiohead,
Althea and Donna,
Darondo,
Hashim,
New Age Steppers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Alice Coltrane,
The Moody Blues,
Tears for Fears,
Howard Jones,
Agent Orange,
Dawn Penn,
Quantec,
Public Enemy,
In Retrospect,
The Smoke,
Neil Young,
the Swans,
John Cale,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Busters,
Faraquet,
David Axelrod,
Easy Going,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.