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 Taiwan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Fear to the grime 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
Spoonie Gee,
The Selecter,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Hardrive,
Pulsallama,
Motorama,
the Sonics,
Little Man,
Tom Boy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bill Near,
Babytalk,
Camouflage,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nico,
Massinfluence,
Ponytail,
The Stooges,
Can,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Godley & Creme,
Moebius,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wings,
The Angels of Light,
Dennis Brown,
Black Flag,
Rod Modell,
Mo-Dettes,
Leonard Cohen,
Alice Coltrane,
Qualms,
Grauzone,
The Flesh Eaters,
Joensuu 1685,
The Evens,
Suburban Knight,
Brick,
Kurtis Blow,
Barbara Tucker,
China Crisis,
Bronski Beat,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Danielle Patucci,
David Axelrod,
the Normal,
Banda Bassotti,
Ludus,
Bang On A Can,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Doors,
Idris Muhammad,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bill Wells,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Fire Engines,
The Durutti Column,
Nirvana,
Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey.
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.