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 Tajikistan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Fluxion to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Inner City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Piero Umiliani,
Mandrill,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roxette,
Inner City,
Brothers Johnson,
Soul II Soul,
Joey Negro,
New York Dolls,
Bush Tetras,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Easy Going,
Jacob Miller,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
David McCallum,
The Mojo Men,
Brass Construction,
Technova,
Organ,
Rites of Spring,
Gang of Four,
Television Personalities,
Excepter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ten City,
Henry Cow,
The Barracudas,
Matthew Halsall,
Fugazi,
Youth Brigade,
Ultimate Spinach,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aloha Tigers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Charles Mingus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Swans,
Sixth Finger,
Angry Samoans,
The Pretty Things,
Los Fastidios,
Althea and Donna,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Raincoats,
Model 500,
Sight & Sound,
8 Eyed Spy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Morten Harket,
Agitation Free,
The Tremeloes,
Tom Boy,
Susan Cadogan,
Bronski Beat,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.