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 Kazakhstan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 The Raincoats to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud 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?
Bauhaus,
Hardrive,
Make Up,
Masters at Work,
Duran Duran,
The Vogues,
Lou Reed,
Judy Mowatt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fat Boys,
Sound Behaviour,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camouflage,
Brand Nubian,
Rapeman,
Lakeside,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dark Day,
The Moleskins,
Junior Murvin,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Steve Hackett,
Slave,
Ken Boothe,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Sherman,
Ralphi Rosario,
Siglo XX,
MC5,
Model 500,
Zapp,
Yusef Lateef,
AZ,
Roger Hodgson,
Bill Near,
Bobby Womack,
Patti Smith,
The Cure,
Qualms,
Derrick May,
Hasil Adkins,
Shuggie Otis,
The J.B.'s,
The Techniques,
Saccharine Trust,
Los Fastidios,
Public Image Ltd.,
Audionom,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Smiths,
Second Layer,
Grey Daturas,
The Velvet Underground,
Accadde A,
The Black Dice,
The Blackbyrds,
The Toasters,
Pantytec,
Scan 7,
Black Sheep,
Sun City Girls,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.